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This is when running for President gets really hard. A bleak, windy Sunday morning in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The local roads are ice. As John Edwards enters the community-college cafeteria, his campaign workers are picking up rows of chairs--to make sure the media don't shoot the empty...
That a stump speech could have such power would seem unlikely in an age when the lingua franca of politics is scripted in 30-sec. commercials by media consultants and pollsters. But the resonance came from Edwards' own life story as the son of a millworker who grew up to...
Elizabeth was diagnosed with breast cancer the day after the election. "We went immediately, full force, especially me, into making sure we got her started on treatment," Edwards says. "We moved very, very quickly and aggressively." As their family began to deal with the reality of her illness and regain...
Not since Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy in the 1960s had any Democrat of national stature addressed the subject with the focus that Edwards gave it. He helped start a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, wrote a book about it and, when the time came to launch...
Edwards does not deny that he is a different candidate. "There's a toughness and a seasoning that comes from going through the experience," he says. "You have a responsibility to make sure that people know what the fundamental differences are." But as Edwards sees the lead he once held...