Posted on Thu, Sep. 23, 2004
CAMPAIGN 2004
Edwards in Columbia: Let’s ‘outsource’ Bush
Staff WriterDemocrat John Edwards returned to his native state for the first time as a vice presidential candidate Wednesday, only to concede this point — South Carolina will vote for President Bush in November.
This is a “tough” state for a Democrat, he said in a brief interview after an address to a “welcome back” rally attended by some 1,200 party faithful.
He rejected the notion that Democrats have written off most of the South, however.
“That’s not true,” said Edwards, a Seneca native who won South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary in February.
“I’ve campaigned in not every but most of the Southern states,” he said, ticking off 11 he had visited.
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