Edwards news buzz as of late.....

[ShaneGR]

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030728&s=lizza072803

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The person with perhaps the greatest potential to emerge as the centrist challenger to Dean or Kerry, once the primaries move south and west after New Hampshire, is Edwards. But, though he has amassed an impressive $8 million war chest, the North Carolina senator is still registering in single digits in all the early caucus and primary states--including South Carolina--and continues to be burdened by the decision about whether to abandon the race for his Senate seat. The Edwards camp plausibly argues that they spent the first six months raising money and are only now sending their candidate out aggressively to meet voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. If the candidates were stocks, Edwards might be the most undervalued in the race and the best buy of the next quarter.

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/politics2003/071803_graham_impeach_2003.shtml

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Jim Wright, 62, of Boscawen, said he had never heard of Graham until his visit today. Wright said he liked Graham's emphasis on improving the economy, but when asked which primary candidates he was interested in learning more about, Wright said, "The other senator - Edwards."

He was referring to Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who visited the factory earlier this year. Edwards's focus on his working class background had made a lasting impression on Wright.

"He came from nothing," Wright said of Edwards. "So he knows everybody got a start from somewhere."

http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/2717885p-2519997c.html

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Challenging the Bush administration on everything from taxes to unemployment to education and homeland security, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told supporters in Rock Hill on Tuesday he would be a president in touch with the American people.
After opening the South Carolina headquarters for his presidential campaign in Columbia, Edwards made a swing through Rock Hill to meet with local Democrats and make an early play for votes.

South Carolina is one of a handful of states in which political parties, not government, covers the cost of primary elections. South Carolina has moved its Democratic contest up to Feb. 3 next year, just a week after the New Hampshire primary.

"I don't think President Bush's values are our values. They're certainly not the values I grew up with," the North Carolina senator told a few dozen supporters gathered at the Rock Hill Arts Council building on Main Street.

Edwards, a native of Seneca and the son of a mill worker, said Bush values wealth over work, thereby ignoring the majority of Americans.

[chimpymustgo]

1. Sgr2 - an undervalued stock. Get in now. The Edwards bandwagon is

pulling out.

But we'll pick up all comers along the way.

The Dean/Kerry fight (go Kerry) is opening the door for Edwards. Not to mention, he's just starting his retail politicking. When people meet him, they love him.

[Sophree]

4. He is the most highly electable

And the most underrated of all the candidates.

He's likeable, eloquent, has a positive, hopeful, populist message, and is the anti-Shrub, as I've said just a few times. ;-)

He is a Rovian nightmare.

He criticizes *'s pandering to corporate criminals.

And I, too, think that he will come through the Dean/Kerry rivalry with flying colors if voters get to know him.

[WilliamPitt]

2. "Challenging the Bush administration on everything..."

except the Patriot Act, which he helped to draft, and the Iraq War vote, which got a yea from him.

Doesn't this disqualify him from viability here on DU? How dare you?

(/sarcasm)

:)

[Pastiche423]

5. If only those

were his most brilliant moves. :eyes:

I can't wait to see Justice for All and NOW protest at each and every of his events.

But as I said on another thread, I truly do not think it will be neccesary. He ain't going no where.

[ShaneGR]

6. Ok, you're right

I'm moving to Cali and starting a local Green Party chapter. I am forever shamed!

:-)

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[_Jumper_]

3. Edwards in 04'!

I think Edwards is out best chance to defeat the GOP in 2004. He can be the next Bill Clinton.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Edwards

certainly has the "stuff" that can attract swing-voters. He's well-spoken, Southern, and handsome. He'd rip W to shreds in a debate, as would Dean. (Shit, or Tickle Me Elmo, for that matter)