"Of course this could be the media making mountains out of molehills but it will be interesting to watch as things continue and we continue to fight to have our party represented by someone other than she-who-must-not-be-named so we can take back the White House in 2008."

Count me out of that "fight."  I for one believe that she-who-must-not-be-named gives us the best chance at taking back the White House in 2008.

I think your reasoning is pretty sound. It'll be interesting to see what happens

I don't understand the SC part at all. He's not polling well there but maybe I am missing something.

There's no way for Edwards to spin it into anything but bad news. NV is supposed to be a test of support among labor and Latino voters and, if he can't count on their support here, how can he be confident about the Great Lakes and the West?

There's a difference between "moving out," which implies outright abandonment, and "shifting resources."

My feeling is that especially for Edwards, if you can't make it through Iowa and New Hampshire, Nevada doesn't matter as much in August.

Wait until the Union endorsements come out.  I think you will see a renewed focus on Nevada later in the year.

He is staking everything on Iowa and just hoping that his "Iowa Rule" will do the rest- he has little else to put hope in.  As he said a while back-

“In 2004 John Kerry won the nomination in Iowa,” he said. “I didn’t know it—painfully, I didn’t know it, since I finished second—but I thought it began a two-person race. What I didn’t understand is that there is such a wave of momentum behind the winner of the Iowa caucus that it is extraordinarily hard to turn it around.”

Mr. Edwards tried to convince his supporters and donors that despite his more modest fund-raising totals and his being behind in national surveys, his slight lead in Iowa polls put him in an enviable position.

“Just in case you don’t know, every campaign knows what I just said,” Mr. Edwards said about the difficulty of turning around after a defeat in Iowa. “This is not just me. If you want to know what people believe matters, look at where Obama and Hillary are spending their time and where they are spending their money. Follow the money and follow the candidates’ time and you will know what they think matters.”

He added that “both of them, by the way, have been in Iowa more than me in this campaign—they are living in Iowa and New Hampshire, because they understand that if you lose Iowa it is incredibly hard to turn it around.”

Mr. Edwards didn’t bring up the fact that he virtually took up residence in Iowa for months, if not years, before officially joining the race, helping him to build the small lead there that he still clings to over Mrs. Clinton in most polls.

http://www.observer.com/2007/edwards-lay s-it-out-fund-raiser

Bad bad sign.

Pulling out of an early state is never a positive.  Never.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/2007081 6/cm_huffpost/060629

After release of the news that John Edwards would be lowering Nevada's place on his political priority roster and moving personnel out of the state, Reid said: "Any candidate who chooses to ignore Nevada and its rich diversity does so at their own peril."