Edwards Is No Cheney -- And That's The Plan

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 20, 2004| Author: Vanessa Williams | Copyright information

Democrats welcomed John Edwards in July as a much-needed jolt of energy to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign and dispatched the North Carolina senator to small towns and rural communities in battleground states, hoping he would connect with voters by sharing his success story of growing up in a working-class family.

But as Kerry's poll numbers waned along with the sunny days of summer, some party leaders began to grumble that Edwards was not doing his part. While President Bush and...

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