Obama takes narrow lead over Clinton in Nevada
A Reno Gazette-Journal poll of 500 likely caucus goers found 32 percent favoring Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, 30 percent for Clinton, a senator from New York, and 27 percent for former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina
Nevada holds the third Democratic contest after Iowa, which Obama won, and New Hampshire, where Clinton emerged victorious. Edwards has come in third in those contests.
Why is Senator Obama referred to as the “junior Senator” from Illinois, when Senator Clinton is ALSO a junior Senator? Edwards is a one-term senator. Why isn’t that mentioned?
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In fact, John Edwards finished second in Iowa, not third. Especially considering the paucity of coverage the Edwards’ campaign has received from Reuters and the mainstream media generally, this error is inexcusable, in that it subtly helps to undermine the Edwards campaign.
Dave
We corrected the Edwards/Iowa error.
Regarding the junior/senior senator references, those terms mean very little, and yes, since both are junior senators, we should have been consistent. We will try to be in future political stories: GBU Editor
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On your rzi page this morning you have a poll, “one on one,” showing how Clinton and Obama stack up against each of the Republican candidates. However, you do not have a similar poll, which might be more interesting, showing how Edwards would do in these match-ups. It seems like an ongoing trend of Edwards being sidelined by the media despite his relatively good showing to date - especially in relationship to the money his campaign is spending. On the same page you show a graph that seems to indicate that Edwards is gaining in South Carolina at Obama’s expense. Again no mention. Why?
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