Word: mate
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...little more than a pretty face who is still at heart a slick, millionaire trial lawyer. At one point a few weeks ago, even Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz had ventured, "We may need someone with stronger credentials on foreign policy." Bush, campaigning in Edwards' state, compared his running mate with Edwards with a withering one-liner that showed how rough his team is planning to play: "Dick Cheney can be President...
...CALL From his study in the family's Pittsburgh, Pa., home, Kerry phones Edwards to officially invite the North Carolina Senator to be his running mate...
...June, the margin was only slightly tighter, with Bush leading 49% to 48%. To the degree that there has been any movement at all, it comes mostly because Bush's numbers are falling--weighed down in part by the fact that half those polled described his choice of running mate Dick Cheney as either "fair" or "poor...
Even as Edwards lost one primary after another last winter, his charm on the stump wowed the Washington political establishment--some of whom predicted Kerry would never pick a running mate who was so certain to upstage him. And Edwards already is, managing to put more punch into a single sentence than Kerry can in an entire paragraph. Kerry has a tendency to describe the contrast between Bush's foreign policy and his own with a thicket of civics-book phrases like unilateral, multilateralism, community of nations and America's relationship with the world. But at the Democrats' first rally...
PITTSBURGH—At 12:30 a.m. on July 7, the day Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., announced his choice of Sen John R. Edwards, D-N.C., as running mate, I arrived at the Pittsburgh airport to relieve Reggie from the exciting but monotonous job of babysitting John Kerry’s 757. I walked into the terminal expecting to find Reggie, who was on my advance team, but instead found myself staring into the lens of an ABC news camera. I headed back out, trying to look inconspicuous in my suit and realized that...