You are exactly right. If the issue is the latter, then the dems are not going to win a single state in the south. But if they make outsourcing a big deal, which it almost seems they are not, then they might have a shot.
Washington insiders are less impressed with Edwards than the media and the party base (that includes the GOP, which for many think Edwards is a formidable opponent). Apparently Edwards "Two Americas" speech did not resonate with swing voters during the primaries, according to polling data.
What is amazing to me is that if you look on DU they are passionate about Iraq and gay marriage. Not a word about outsourcing and globalism.
How tone deaf is the left ?
If Kerry continues to back away from outsourcing he will lose big. I used to think this was a partisan issue. It isn't. It splits both parties between nationalists and globalists.