Does anyone know if Elizabeth Edwards is going to get more face time?

[PlanetBev]

I'm telling you, Karen Hughes, Lynn Cheney and Laura Bush are make big inroads into the women's vote with that "W" is for women shit. I've been hearing that the fabled gender gap is non-existant this year. Laura's so-called pro-choice position is buffaloing a lot of women, making her look harmless. Believe you me, that woman is lethal. You see Laura Bush all over the place and you never get to see John or Elizabeth Edwards. Why the hell are they hiding the Edwards team from the media?

Once again Kerry campaign, wake up!

[Droopy]

1. Edwards is out there campaigning all across the country

It's not his fault that the media isn't covering him, nor is there anything the Kerry campaign can do about it.

[murielm99]

3. Elizabeth is out campaigning, too.

She is travelling without John, making campaign stops and speeches in some places. She was in Iowa recently.

[JI7]

2. she IS going around, but they don't show her or Teresa as they do

the Bush women.

and unlike the bush women elizabeth and teresa go out and speak on the issues and take challenging questions from people. they are amazing. and the kerry and edwards girls are also part of getting out the women votes as are kerry's sisters. but our side is not getting media attention. i guess the media doesn't like it that us democratic women actually have something to say .

[secular_warrior]

4. Elizabeth? I'm wondering if John Edwards is going to get more face time

I feel very strongly that Cahill and Shrum have mismanaged this campaign on so many levels.

Elizabeth and Teresa should be out there, but instead these 'strategists' are listening to the media cries about Teresa being a 'liability'.

John Edwards needs to have a NATIONAL role in this campaign (not just a local media one), leading the populist assault on this corporate-owned Administration. He needs to carve up Cheney and the rest of the criminals like I know Edwards can -- with a nice sharp knife and a smile.

[spooky3]

5. Democratic women have to go topless to get the media coverage

Rethugs get. Or they have to say something that can be made to sound outrageous to get their own unique negative coverage never extended to the RWers. See the FAIR website for evidence of the bias against feminists in the news.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Elizabeth could help to reclaim some of the women's vote..

... that the campaign has been losing of late.

There's just something about Elizabeth that exudes "home", "comfort" and "safety" -- the warm smile, the twinle in her eye, the laugh, the easy playfulness with her small children. She has an appeal that no other player in this arena has at the moment, especially because the other candidates' children are grown.

Bush is stealing women's votes by playing on fear; Elizabeth could grab those votes right back because her very demeanor cancels that out.

Note to K/E team: get Elizabeth out there in front of the cameras as much as you possibly can!

[RamboLiberal]

7. She was in SW PA yesterday - good local story

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, serves cantaloupe to victims of Friday's flooding during a visit to the Millvale Community Center yesterday.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04266/383299.stm

At DeNunzio's Italian restaurant in Jeannette, the Democrats' potential "second lady," Elizabeth Edwards, is midway through another long day of solo campaigning. She's running behind schedule; her campaign aides have already given her the 'cut' sign.

But she protests and calls on a woman with a query the campaign of the Democratic presidential challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry, has struggled for months to answer with clarity: Why did Kerry vote for the war on Iraq and then vote against its funding?

"Let me tell you what happened," Elizabeth Edwards answers simply. The vote of Kerry and her husband, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, to authorize the use of force in Iraq was like hammer, she explains, to pressure then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein -- 'like pulling out a switch, if you're a mom' -- a threat of force they'd hoped that the United States would never have to use. And at the time, Edwards and Kerry insisted that if there were an invasion by U.S. forces, there must be a plan for peace in the aftermath.

But after the Iraq invasion, there was no plan from the president, Edwards insisted. Security in Iraq was deteriorating, and something had to be done to ensure soldiers' safety. So when Bush sought $87 billion more for the war effort, Edwards and Kerry refused to give him "a blank check."