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Wisconsin Wrap
Aired February 18, 2004 - 06:05 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Back to John Edwards now, who, of course, manages to pull off his own dairy land delight. His campaign has legs.
Let's head live to D.C. and Bill Prasad.
Good morning -- Bill.
Bill, before we...
BILL PRASAD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Before we begin, I want to show our viewers some of our CNN exit poll results. Look at these numbers now, and look at the electability numbers specifically. Hopefully, we'll have that graphic for you. There it is. You see John Kerry gets 69 percent to Edwards' 28 percent. But look at these numbers. Among Independent voters...
PRASAD: That's right. The exit polls showed John Edwards...
COSTELLO: Here are the Independents. John Edwards has 40 percent of Independent voters...
PRASAD: Right.
COSTELLO: And John Kerry finishes behind. What does that say about these candidates, Bill?
PRASAD: Well, as far as the Independent voters, it shows that John Edwards did very well among those voters. Remember that Wisconsin has a legacy of being somewhat of a maverick independent state. This is a state that chose Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis and Al Gore, but also chose Ronald Reagan.
So, Wisconsin goes its own way. The Democrats know this, and apparently the Independents gravitated toward John Edwards.
COSTELLO: And the interesting thing about the Wisconsin primary is that everybody can vote in the primary -- Republicans and Independents. Do you have any early word on whether they rushed to the polls this time to vote...
PRASAD: Well, a number of Republicans...
COSTELLO: ... for Edwards?
PRASAD: Right. A number of Republicans and Independents seemed to be voting in favor of Edwards. Now, a number of voters overall went to the polls with the economy in mind, and keep in mind that Wisconsin has lost 80,000 manufacturing jobs in the last three years.
John Edwards made it very clear that he was against NAFTA. He made it very clear that John Kerry was in favor of NAFTA. And many of those voters who went to the polls equated the loss of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin with the passage of NAFTA, so many of those folks cast votes in favor of John Edwards.
COSTELLO: It will be interesting to see if Kerry tailors his message. We'll see. Bill Prasad live from D.C. this morning.
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Aired February 18, 2004 - 06:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Back to John Edwards now, who, of course, manages to pull off his own dairy land delight. His campaign has legs.
Let's head live to D.C. and Bill Prasad.
Good morning -- Bill.
Bill, before we...
BILL PRASAD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Before we begin, I want to show our viewers some of our CNN exit poll results. Look at these numbers now, and look at the electability numbers specifically. Hopefully, we'll have that graphic for you. There it is. You see John Kerry gets 69 percent to Edwards' 28 percent. But look at these numbers. Among Independent voters...
PRASAD: That's right. The exit polls showed John Edwards...
COSTELLO: Here are the Independents. John Edwards has 40 percent of Independent voters...
PRASAD: Right.
COSTELLO: And John Kerry finishes behind. What does that say about these candidates, Bill?
PRASAD: Well, as far as the Independent voters, it shows that John Edwards did very well among those voters. Remember that Wisconsin has a legacy of being somewhat of a maverick independent state. This is a state that chose Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis and Al Gore, but also chose Ronald Reagan.
So, Wisconsin goes its own way. The Democrats know this, and apparently the Independents gravitated toward John Edwards.
COSTELLO: And the interesting thing about the Wisconsin primary is that everybody can vote in the primary -- Republicans and Independents. Do you have any early word on whether they rushed to the polls this time to vote...
PRASAD: Well, a number of Republicans...
COSTELLO: ... for Edwards?
PRASAD: Right. A number of Republicans and Independents seemed to be voting in favor of Edwards. Now, a number of voters overall went to the polls with the economy in mind, and keep in mind that Wisconsin has lost 80,000 manufacturing jobs in the last three years.
John Edwards made it very clear that he was against NAFTA. He made it very clear that John Kerry was in favor of NAFTA. And many of those voters who went to the polls equated the loss of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin with the passage of NAFTA, so many of those folks cast votes in favor of John Edwards.
COSTELLO: It will be interesting to see if Kerry tailors his message. We'll see. Bill Prasad live from D.C. this morning.
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