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...practicing law in his home state of North Carolina that John Edwards learned how to fight back, to beat the moneyed interests that are keeping regular Americans down. Remember, in most of the South the union movement is weak, so for working people, the only path to justice often runs through the courtroom. It was there that John Edwards, time and again defeated companies that through negligence or malice were doing harm to regular people...
...Even his own opponents cannot refute that he is a true American hero and an honorable man. In this election, he has won an endorsement from Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and from newspapers like The Boston Globe, The Concord Monitor, The Manchester Union Leader, and The Des Moines Register...
...Obama’s victory represents something more than a brief aberration in the ordinary political process. Obama won with enthusiastic support from more groups than his typical strongholds—college students and highly educated liberals. More women voted for Obama than for Clinton; more union members and their families voted for Obama than for Edwards. Clearly, then, his victory in Iowa was not only a consequence of his campaign’s ability to mobilize an established base of voters...
...Even as Edwards was speaking last night, member states of the Service Employees International Union that have endorsed Edwards were sending out a press release claiming victory out of second place and laying out their strategy to work for him in the upcoming contests. And you can be sure the same outside groups that helped Edwards in Iowa will appear in New Hampshire. Still, the tidal wave that Edwards' spoke of, at least for tonight, is not his own. It will take another tidal wave for Edwards to wrest the mantle of change - and a victory - from Obama...
Odinga claims the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki rigged the Dec. 27 general election when Odinga was on the verge of winning. That allegation has been backed by statements from the U.S., Britain and European Union observers alleging irregularities in the counting process. It was further strengthened Thursday when Kenya's attorney general called for an independent investigation into the poll. "It is necessary... that a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and confirmed should be undertaken immediately on a priority basis by an agreed and independent person or body," Attorney General Amos Wako said. The country, he added...