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Don't forget John Edwards

Okay, I admit that I’m a little prejudiced. John Edwards is from Raleigh, indeed we once went to the same church and my lawyer step-daughter knows him well. All I personally know about him is favorable. Yet my plea to at least keep Edwards in mind for 2008 is because he shares my concern about poverty and its consequences. Today he got a boost form a new Pew poll cited in Cillizza’s WP column, "The Fix." Below is an excerpt for Cillizza’s analysis:

Among Democrats, Edwards was the strongest potential 2008 candidate among Republicans and independents. He was thought of favorably by 68 percent of independents and 48 percent of Republicans. Eighty-five percent of Democrats had a favorable view of Edwards, who had the highest favorability score of any of the Democrats tested -- including former President Bill Clinton. Edwards allies are likely to circulate the poll results among the chattering class over the next few days to try and cement the idea that he is the only Democratic candidate that can win back the centrist voters who gave Bush two terms in the White House.

Not surprisingly, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- the consensus frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination -- is viewed extremely poorly by Republicans, just 23 percent of whom gave her a favorable rating. Clinton scored a 58 percent favorable score among independents and an 86 percent favorable rating among Democrats.

How about an Edwards/Obama ticket?

[UPDATE from Agen: Nothing would make Mrs. F happier than an Edwards/Obama ticket; in fact, we've already got an Obama 2008 bumper sticker on our car, Gunter Grass. Also, here's the link to Chris Cillizza's Fix blog post at the WaPo.]