In most nationwide polls, John Edwards is running a distant third among Democratic Party nominees for president. He seems to be having better luck with a certain group of elite college professors.
The Edwards campaign, on the eve of today’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, said it had won the endorsement of more than 30 leading economists, including James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin and Harley Shaiken of the University of California at Berkeley.
Other economists backing Mr. Edwards include Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Edward Wolff of New York University.
Mr. Galbraith, in a statement issued by the Edwards campaign, said the former North Carolina senator has “proposed detailed and comprehensive policies to address the growing income gap, the health-care crisis, job loss, and the other critical social issues.”
