Archive for the ‘edwards’ Category

Edwards gives long-awaited endorsement to Obama

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy.Read the full story

Edwards would not accept VP nomination

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago.Read the full story

The unpopularity of populism

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Candidates who have embraced various aspects of the traditional populist amalgam — class warfare, corporate greed, fundamental monetary reform, and general anti-estamblishmentarianism — have tanked.Read the full story

Obama Leads, Edwards rises in S.C. polls

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

According to the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, Edwards has gained 4 percentage points since Wednesday and is the choice of 19 percent of likely voters. Obama maintains the S.C. lead at 39 percent but his lead is down 4 percentage points over Clinton from a day earlier.Read the full story

Mine, steel workers back Edwards

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Union backing should help push Edwards into the top tier with Hillary and Barack: John Edwards won the endorsement of the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America as more than 1,000 union members cheered the Democratic presidential candidate.Read the full story

John Edwards: In His Own Words

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

It’s time to end the game. It’s time to tell the big corporations and the lobbyists who have been running things for too long that their time is over. It’s time to challenge politicians to put the American people’s interests ahead of their own calculated political interests, to look the ...

CNN Political Ticker Is John Edwards ‘Karl Rove’s worst nightmare’? ¬´

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

"Rove is using his sneaky, underhanded tactics to try and trick Democrats into rallying around a candidate who won't be as strong as John in the general election," Trippi added.Read the full story

Edwards: Bush’s Iraq/September 11 remarks ‘border on the delisonal’

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

"The president's remarks today defending his Iraq policy without regard to actual facts border on the delusional," Edwards said in a statement released Thursday, hours after a Bush press conference. "The president claimed that the same people attacking U.S. troops today are the ones who perpetrated 9/11."Read the full story

Splitting Hairs, Edwards’s Stylist Tells His Side of Story

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California. Torrenueva said one haircut during ...