The title of this piece was John Edwards Not Planning to Quietly Fade Away, but what was more surprising and pleasing to see was the following:
among the audience Wednesday night were numerous supporters wearing the colors of the SEIU. "Everyone knows our union wanted Edwards from the beginning but settled for Obama when it looked like he had a better chance," said one long-time SEIU member at the Edwards rally. "A lot of us are going to caucus for John."
What this says to me is that Edwards work on behalf of the unions will not be forgotten and he will still get a lot of union votes, even from those who have officially endorsed other candidates, despite their pro-free trade stands in recent months.
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Though written off by much of the media and the punditocracy as the third-running and under-financed national contender behind rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the former North Carolina senator seems nevertheless buoyed by a cushion of support from organized labor, as well as from some statewide polls that put him within a few points of striking distance behind his two higher-profile opponents.
As a pulsating crowd of hundreds of union-jacketed supporters jam-packed into the local Carpenters Union hall Thursday night repeatedly stood on their feet and chanted "Go, John, Go!", a beaming Edwards, wearing jeans under his blue blazer, proclaimed himself a serious contender in the coming Democratic primaries. "The other night in the debate," he said referring to Tuesday's televised Vegas stand-off among the candidates, "a lot of caucus voters realized that contrary to what the media's been telling them for the last year there's not two, but rather three candidates in this race."
That exactly why John will not fade away, because as this race continues, people will get to hear the views that the corporate media want silenced, and that is the view that Edwards espouses, that we must end the stranglehold on our democracy by the corporations - the same corporations that are in favor of union busting free trade agreements that threaten the middle class as it has never been threatened before.
The unions know this and are not forgetting and will be caucusing for John in Nevada.
I will not be forgetting either: that is why we are going to deliver the Edwards Campaign a huge fundraising boost tomorrow. That is Friday the 18th - donate to Edwards to make him the 7 million dollar man.