"That's how Lincoln won the presidency,"
UPDATE: I think his beautiful daughter, Cate, puts it best:
excerpt:
"A lot of people think [the primaries] are all about winning, but it's about collecting delegates ... [in 1992] Bill Clinton didn't win in the first six or seven states," she said. "The media rushes to nominate, but we want all voters' voices to be heard. My dad is going to stick it out — and obviously South Carolina plays an important role — but it's going to be a long process.
"He will continue. He's been pushing all the major issues, and he's picking up momentum. A win would be great," she added. "The problem is, we have two celebrity candidates, and my dad's message is drowned out in the media. When people hear my dad's message, they respond to it."
"I think what he's doing today, talking to these young voters, that's really important. Because it's very hard for us to think that our voice is being heard," Cate Edwards said. "I think most young voters feel that our democracy has been taken away from us, and I think that most of us realize that this election is a big step towards taking it back."
His hardcore supporters here seem neither downcast nor resigned; most are as indignant about his treatment in the media and as feisty about what lies ahead as the candidate is.
Fred Crenshaw, a 69-year-old retired postal worker who came to see Edwards at a hamburger stand in rural Laurens yesterday, said the political media is "obsessed" with Clinton and Obama.
"You watch these shows - which being retired, that's all I've got to do - and they’re like the Golf Channel on Tiger Woods," he said. Still, he and other backers said they still believed Edwards could win South Carolina.
"I'm hoping the press is proven as wrong as they were in New Hampshire," said Nancy Allen, a 60-year-old retired middle school teacher from Greenville, referring to Clinton's surprise victory.
Allen's daughter, Katherine King, 30, said she knocked on 90 doors for Edwards on Thursday and found surprising support for him, even in conservative neighborhoods.
"Greenville is so Republican, when I was canvassing I expected Republicans to be really mean," she said. "But the reception for John was overwhelming."
Almost universally, his fans said that even if he loses South Carolina, they hoped Edwards would stay in the race until the national convention in August, because they believed he enriched the debate or they thought he could be a compromise candidate at a brokered convention.
"That's how Lincoln won the presidency," said Karen Reagle, 65, of Atlanta, who came to South Carolina to volunteer.
John says he is the representative of the GROWN UP WING of the Democratic Party. AMEN brother.
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