Craig-TX
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Well well well, there's hope yet. Gore would be president right now except for the embarrassing fact that he couldn't carry his own home state. The good folks of Tennessee were too upright to call him one of their own. Well, check out this article. The pertinent part is in bold, the rest is cut out. The whole thing is at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... oymadehuge
Craig-TX
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Local Boy Made Huge
By Ellen Barry Times Staff Writer
ROBBINS, N.C. — Two days after Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry announced his choice of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) as a running mate, there was little evidence of the event in Edwards' rural, industrial hometown.
There were no banners, no balloons, no Kerry-Edwards lawn signs.
Although the owner of the Capt. Snipper Salon and Day Spa had put up a hand-lettered poster on the morning of the announcement — "Congradulations to John Edwards" — that poster was gone by the next day.
What Edwards does not mention in these speeches is the deep vein of Republicanism that runs through his hometown. Edwards did not carry the county, Moore, in his run for the U.S. Senate;
Craig-TX
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Local Boy Made Huge
By Ellen Barry Times Staff Writer
ROBBINS, N.C. — Two days after Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry announced his choice of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) as a running mate, there was little evidence of the event in Edwards' rural, industrial hometown.
There were no banners, no balloons, no Kerry-Edwards lawn signs.
Although the owner of the Capt. Snipper Salon and Day Spa had put up a hand-lettered poster on the morning of the announcement — "Congradulations to John Edwards" — that poster was gone by the next day.
What Edwards does not mention in these speeches is the deep vein of Republicanism that runs through his hometown. Edwards did not carry the county, Moore, in his run for the U.S. Senate;