Despite Focus on Poverty, Edwards Trails Among the Poor
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As Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards ramps up his anti-poverty initiative this weekend, he will be confronting a deep popularity deficit among his party's poorest voters.
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When John Edwards pursued his crusade against poverty in 2005, he created a nonprofit center that allowed him to maintain a high profile &#151; and avoid the legal scrutiny of presidential candidates.
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Democrat John Edwards is pondering his future as his tenure as a North Carolina senator winds down, but says even his campaign for vice president fit his view of public service.
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Campaign Journal: His poverty tour may or may not ignite the Edwards candidacy. But it connected with James Lowe
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For organizers of last weekÃ¢ÂÂs forum in Washington on religion and politics, featuring the three leading Democratic presidential candidates, the aim was to broaden the religious Ã¢ÂÂvalues agenda.Ã¢ÂÂ In particular, it was part of an effort by left-leaning evangelical activist Jim Wallis to focus attention on the moral dimensions of poverty.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards celebrated snagging two coveted labor union endorsements during a stop Monday in central Iowa on Labor Day, while continuing to tout himself as the candidate who cares most about labor issues.
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U.S. aid should focus more on reducing poverty in the poorest countries instead of being driven primarily by security concerns, a coalition of U.S.-based charities said on Thursday.
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As the top Democratic hopefuls jostle for position in the first contests of the 2008 White House race, there is one thing uniting Barack Obama and John Edwards -- they are not Hillary Clinton.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards added some Hollywood star power to his focus on rural problems, campaigning Wednesday in South Carolina's small towns with actor and political activist Danny Glover.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards had income of nearly &#36;39 million over the past decade, and paid more than a third of his earnings in taxes, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
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Looking to shake up Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, John Edwards is making an ardent push for voters to turn away from Washington insiders and a corrupt political system dominated by lobbyists and special interests.
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Democratic presidential candidate  John Edwards campaigned through a bitterly cold night into  Wednesday to dramatize the urgency of his fight for middle  America and capitalize on a recent jump in the polls.
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Supporters stood in the dark as the John Kerry-John Edwards campaign train sped through town in the wee hours of Saturday. They got their chance to spend time with half the ticket Sunday when Edwards and his family paid a makeup call in a rare Democratic foray into a traditionally Republican stronghold.
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Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, getting the 2008 campaign cycle off to an early start, said Saturday that poverty "is one of the great moral issues of our time" and he pledged to help fight it.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards postponed campaign events in Alabama and North Dakota to make a major policy address on poverty Wednesday in New Orleans, where he launched his presidential bid 13 months ago.
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Like Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson before him, John Edwards nearly always runs late while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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John Edwards says Americans should care more about economic injustice. Can he turn the plight of the poor into a winning campaign issue?