Edwards likely hasn't run his last race
John Edwards failed in his White House bid, but few who know the North Carolina senator expect him to exit from the national stage. Edwards put a coda on his campaign before a packed gymnasium Wednesday at Broughton High School. But in a nearly three-year quest for the White House, Edwards impressed Democratic activists, political leaders and experts as a talented campaigner and a rising national figure.
He came out of nowhere
North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has reached the end of the road on the presidential campaign trail -- traveling farther than many thought possible, but stopping far short of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. On the grueling road from Des Moines to Atlanta, Edwards impressed voters as a fresh face, an optimistic voice and a promising figure in national Democratic politics.
Cleanup clause bears fruit
The images that have flickered across Tar Heel TV screens during the political campaigns of the past two decades have been scary enough for one of those slasher, Texas chainsaw massacre movies.
Edwards wows 'em in Wis.
Edwards has never been buddy-buddy with reporters. But the night before Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, Edwards is wired.
Dixie's one-two punch hits Edwards hard
John Edwards' campaign for the White House appears to be rapidly running out of political oxygen. Having campaigned as the candidate who can win in the South, Edwards on Tuesday decisively lost primaries in Tennessee and Virginia to a New Englander.
Edwards has no cronies
It is January 2005 and President-elect John Edwards raises his right hand to take the oath of office as president of the United States. Whom will he bring with him to help him run the country? Answer: Probably not many people from North Carolina.
For Edwards, it's No. 1 or naught in S.C.
From the beginning of his run for the White House, Sen. John Edwards has looked forward to some home cooking in South Carolina -- the state of his birth and the fount of his smooth upstate accent. His game plan was to make respectable showings in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and then make a powerful statement by winning the South Carolina primary Tuesday.
Edwards stuns us again
I was standing in the back of A.J.'s Cup of Coffee restaurant here the other day, when John Edwards' daddy delivered an I-told-you-so.
Clark, Dean get local help
They hold house parties across Raleigh. They knock on doors in Iowa and South Carolina. And they are Internet-savvy, creating political networks through chat rooms and e-mail lists. But they are not Edwardians.
