January 18, 2004, 7:30 A.M. PST on Face the Nation, CBS-TV – I have been hard on Bob Schieffer before. The reason is always the same. It is the same reason this time. There he sat in Iowa, talking to Senator John Edwards, who clams to be surging because his positive message reflects his small town connection with the “people.”...(snip) The reason the White House and congress is in Republican hands today, and the reason the former Democrat registration majority of 51% has shrunk to 31% is that in the past ten years a gigantic town hall has been created...