The Coiffe That Just Won’t Die

The haircut story once again rears its ugly (but really quite pretty) head in Iowa yet again — this time at an Edwards event in Ft. Dodge.  When will the story go away?

A woman first asked him if he would consider living on the “food stamp diet’ a few members of Congress are trying. He told her he hadn’t heard about it, but if he could make it work on the Presidential campaign trail, he would think about it. Then she brought up the haircut. She told him her family lives for weeks on what he paid for that one haircut. The comment brought a collective “ohhhh” from the crowd and silence for a bit from Edwards.

Until this point, nothing I have observed has indicated that this story actually caught on in Iowa.  The national media has been obsessed with it for a while, and the Iowa press covered it when the story first broke; but Edwards has gotten good at preempting the story with a one-liner in his stump speeches, and no one I have spoken to plans to make their decision based on it.

Still, the Ft. Dodge question anecdotally indicates otherwise.