The subscription-only Hotline newsletter says John Edwards is surging:
Who said there's no room in the WH '08 Dem race for Obama and Edwards? That CW, according to the latest Hotline/Diageo poll, is wrong. Over the past month, Edwards's favorability bumped up 15 percentage points. While Clinton and Obama are still at the top of the heap in an open-ended '08 question, Edwards is closing in on Obama. (In the Cook poll, he's already eclipsed him).
The change, obviously, is based on how John and Elizabeth handled the return of her cancer, and the uniformly positive-wall-to-wall TV coverage that humanized him and reminded the electorate about her engaging personality. The message: strength in the face of adversity. Watching Edwards interact with Iowans last night, one also got the sense that many supporters rediscovered the candidate through the context of his family.
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