Edwards Gains Iowa Endorsement But What's Equally Important is the Reason He Got It

    "Iowans for Sensible Priorities" -- a group that claims it can send almost 10,000 adherents to the caucuses -- has endorsed John Edwards.
    A quote from the ABC dispatch:

    "There's a rhetoric gap with Obama," executive director Peggy Huppert told ABC News. "He told me personally: 'Trust me. Ideologically, I'm with you.' But people have told him to be afraid of being pushed too far to the left. He doesn't bring up [cuts in Pentagon spending] on his own. He doesn't incorporate it into his speeches. He skirts around it. He talks around the edges. He never gets to the heart of it in strong, bold language."

    This is why, as we've noted before, rhetoric counts. It's also why it's way too soon to write off Edwards, even if the press tends to do so.