Edwards: What about me?

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- On the heels of a Democratic debate in
which he reminded everyone that there was a third candidate,
presidential candidate John Edwards is hitting both the campaign
trail and the air waves.
Tonight, the former North Carolina senator is scheduled to
appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman," followed by an
appearance on the "Tyra Banks Show" on Friday.
In between, he's campaigning in South Carolina with bluegrass
legend Ralph Stanley and actor Danny Glover.
In last night's debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, tried to
stay above the fray while pleading for equal time. He badly trails
both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
At one point, he asks "Are there three people in this debate,
not two?"

Interesting Stats on Edwards Coming from Iowa

Some interesting statistics from CNN showing a detailed breakdown on the type of people who caucused for each candidate.

I see that John Edwards support showed some significant things:

42% of people who called themselves "Conservatives" voted for Edwards.

Also, if you read "Top Candidate Quality", you will see that 44% considered him top contender in "Cares About People" and perhaps the most significant stat, 36% of the caucus-goers considered John to be most electable.

Read more of the stats here:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#val=IADEM

Edwards Urges Voters to Overturn Iowa Results

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards today asked New Hampshire voters to reject the Iowa caucus results and vote for a candidate "who will fight for the middle class."

The former North Carolina senator says corporate interests are moving jobs overseas and making health care expensive.

Edwards narrowly edged out Hillary Clinton for second place behind winner Barack Obama in Iowa. Edwards told about 300 campaign workers and supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, this morning that voters have two choices, implying Clinton is out of the running.

Edwards suggested he would wage a populist agenda more energetically than Obama.

Edwards and his advisers see Iowa's results as a clear call for political change in America.

Edwards Back of Criticism After Tagging His Rivals

By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- At a key moment during a labor-sponsored debate in August, John Edwards laid down a marker against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"The one thing you can count on is you will never see a picture of me on the front of Fortune magazine saying I am the candidate that big, corporate America is betting on," he said, an unmistakable reference to a cover story about Clinton with the headline "Business Loves Hillary! (Who Knew?)"

On his current bus tour of Iowa, with the caucuses only three weeks away, Edwards rarely mentions his rivals. His campaign believes he hardly needs to because he spent months branding them -- Clinton as the corporate Democrat, Barack Obama as the callow compromiser who would negotiate with special interests.

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Edwards Tries to Quash Student's Report

By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A University of North Carolina professor said Friday that John Edwards' campaign demanded that he pull a student reporter's television story that focused on the upscale location of the campaign's headquarters.



C.A. "Charlie" Tuggle, an associate professor at the school, said the Edwards campaign contacted the reporter, second-year master's degree student Carla Babb, asking for a video of her report to be removed from the Internet. When that failed, the campaign demanded in three calls to Tuggle that the TV story be killed, he said.

Tuggle said the campaign had complained that the reporter misrepresented the story she planned to do. He also said the Edwards campaign warned that relations with the school could be jeopardized.

The Edwards campaign had no comment on the professor's specific contentions. More generally, spokeswoman Colleen Murray said: "This is silly. We love all reporters, the problem is the feeling isn't always mutual."

The TV story is to air Monday on the program "Carolina Week" in Chapel Hill. It was first posted on YouTube for an MTV contest and drew only a couple of hundred hits during the first days on the site.

The Edwards campaign complained to Tuggle, he said, that the student had not disclosed the angle of the story and had asked for access to do a feature on a student who was interning for the campaign.

In the report, Babb interviews students, one on the campaign, one not. She asks whether it is appropriate for Edwards to base his operations in his affluent hometown of Chapel Hill, home of the university, as opposed to a location that would better reflect his campaign platform of fighting poverty.

After quoting the students, Babb concludes her report by saying, "It's ultimately up to the voters to decide if running a presidential campaign here was a smart move politically. But it's safe to say, in Chapel Hill, opinions are split. "

In an interview Friday, Babb said: "I was completely shocked to get a phone call from the Edwards campaign saying that the story was straight from the Republican Party and that we needed to take it down."

She said she wanted to do a story about student opinions about Edwards' headquarters near campus in Chapel Hill's Southern Village.

Tuggle is the news director of "Carolina Week" and the broadcast professor who advises students for the newscast.

"Was it what the campaign was expecting it to be? No," Tuggle said. "But I don't know that we're obligated as journalists to tell that the focus of a story has changed."

Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, graduated with a law degree from the university and helped develop and operate a poverty center there after the 2004 election.

Iowa Service Union Endorses Edwards

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards has received the
endorsement of the Iowa State Council of the Service Employees
International Union, and announcements of support from other state
councils were promised to follow Monday, a campaign official said.

"This endorsement reflects Senator Edwards' lifelong commitment
to standing up for working Americans like the people he grew up
with," said the senior campaign official, who requested anonymity
because he was speaking about the endorsement before its official
release.

He told The Associated Press that a "number of other state
councils" of the SEIU will announce their support for the former
North Carolina senator at an event in Iowa City on Monday evening,
but he wouldn't confirm how many.

Edwards was stung last week by the national SEIU when leaders
said it would not endorse a candidate for the primary elections,
letting its members make their decisions on a state-by-state basis.

Edwards had worked hard to win the seal of approval from the
union, which claims to be the fastest growing in North America,
boasting 1.9 million members in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

The 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee has spent
considerable time the past couple of years walking picket lines,
speaking out for workers' rights and seeking labor support.

Cathy Glasson, a registered nurse and president of SEIU Local
199, said Edwards' health care plan was pivotal to earning the
support in Iowa.

"We are uniquely positioned to see and hear the candidates and
members are well informed on the issues important to working
families," she said in a statement. "John Edwards earned our
support by taking a strong stand on health care and because he
offers our members the greatest hope for restoring the American
Dream."

Edwards Response to President Bush

After President Bush made yet another argument for continuing the war in Iraq, John Edwards spoke directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC.

Baldwin Auctioning Off a Day on Edwards' Campaign

NEW YORK (AP) -- William Baldwin is auctioning a day on the campaign trail with presidential hopeful John Edwards and a private falconry lesson with Robert Kennedy Jr. to raise funds for his mother's foundation.

Baldwin personally lined up the VIP packages -- including the day with Edwards, the former North Carolina senator -- for an online auction to benefit The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, which his mother established in 1996 after surviving breast cancer. Baldwin and his brother Alec Baldwin sit on the board of the foundation, which provides grants to researchers.

"I was very lucky ... to get a significant number of people on board and committed," Baldwin told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview. "And I think that sort of created somewhat of an aura, where people were like, `You know, we wanna be in on this."'

Baldwin, who stars on ABC's new show "Dirty Sexy Money," said he hustled friends and family -- in a nice way -- to book the packages, which are up for bid on the Charity Folks Web site through the end of October.

Items also include a walk-on role on NBC's "30 Rock," which stars Alec Baldwin, and backstage passes to concerts by Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow.

There's also a chance to join Miley Cyrus -- Hannah Montana herself -- on tour for a day. "That's gonna go for a fortune," Baldwin said.

Baldwin, whose big screen credits include "Backdraft" and "The Squid and the Whale," said he's excited about "Dirty Sexy Money."

"It feels like a comedy, it feels like a drama, it feels like a soap all rolled into one," he said of the show, which premieres Wednesday night.

Baldwin is hoping for a hit.

"Send out the word," he said. "We want big numbers, so I can do this for a couple years."

Edwards Bold Approach to Counter-Terrorism

Here's CNN's story on Edwards bold approach to counter terrorism. If you wanting to know what Edwards is about, this is a good watch.

Edwards Slams Clinton, 'Establishment Elites'

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WASHINGTON -- John Edwards didn't mention a chief Democratic presidential rival by name, but it seemed clear whom the White House hopeful was targeting in a fiery speech Thursday in New Hampshire.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards campaigns last weekend in Clinton, Iowa.

The former U.S. senator from North Carolina, who finds himself lagging significantly behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in most national polls, told New Hampshire voters to reject "establishment elites" and "outdated answers ... rooted in nostalgia."

"The trouble with nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked and forget what you didn't," Edwards said. "It's not just that the answers of the past aren't up to the job today, it's that the system that produced them was corrupt -- and still is."

Clinton often touts the successes of her husband's administration on the campaign trail as does the former president.

But Edwards said voters shouldn't replace "a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats." Seeming to take a page out of Republican talking points from the '90s, he added, "The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate."

Following President Clinton's 1996 re-election, Republicans accused him of improperly allowing top campaign donors to spend a night in the White House, arguing the practice amounted to "renting" out the Lincoln Bedroom.

Edwards also said, "We cannot triangulate our way to real change," a veiled reference to the ex-Democratic president's political strategy of attempting to fashion a "third way" on issues to appeal to members of both political parties.

Edwards, who previously has attacked the former first lady for accepting campaign donations from lobbyists, continued his criticisms of the practice Thursday, decrying "the politicians who curry [lobbyists'] favor and carry their water."

The senator from New York has defended accepting $400,000 in campaign donations from lobbyists, saying at a recent presidential forum, "A lot of these lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans. They actually do. They represent nurses, they represent social workers -- yes, they represent corporations that employ a lot of people," she said.

The Clinton campaign hasn't responded to requests for comments on Edwards' speech.

His speech kicks off a four-day bus tour of New Hampshire, a crucial campaign state, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.