Spotlight turns to Edwards

Spotlight turns to Edwards

Saunders is the rural strategist for former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), who now is seen as having found new momentum in Iowa, where Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) are deadlocked.

It's not so much that Edwards is surging 15 days before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus; he's been strong all along, but the media was paying more attention to front-runners Obama and Clinton. Now he is growing as a factor. Everything is fluid.

"At least early on, there was a lot of glitz associated with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama," Edwards said Tuesday on "Hardball." "I think that's faded some, to be honest with you, and now I think we're getting down to the nitty-gritty."

I think that this is true that in the beginning it was all about Obama and Clinton but now everyone is out and running the spotlights are changing some and the other runners are getting a lot of view too.