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Edwards delivers final speech in Senate Democrat talks of battles fought and constituents helped TIM FUNK Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Sen. John Edwards said goodbye to the U.S. Senate on Friday, delivering a final floor speech that invoked the names of colleagues he fought with on the Patients Bill of Rights and constituents he fought for in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd and the closing of Pillowtex. Though the Tar Heel Democrat was absent from the upper chamber for much of the last two years -- missing a high percentage of the 673 roll call votes as he ran...

In a surprise announcement, Al Gore’s cable channel has announced the cancellation of what he and other insiders had hoped would be a series to electrify the 18-24 year old voter demographic in the 2004 election. But as the election neared on November 2nd, industry watchers admitted candidly that the show, “The Two Johns,” about two multi-millionaire attorneys on a quest to wrest the White House from Republican control, had not found the right mix of hip humor, adolescent angst, and political pizzazz to wrest young viewers from such hits as “Pimp My Ride” and “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report.” Former Vice...

Thousands Crowd Capitol To Listen To Kerry Lucy Barnett, Staff Writer POSTED: 11:09 am EDT July 30, 2004 UPDATED: 10:20 pm EDT July 30, 2004 HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A crowd of 25,000-30,000 people came out to the state Capitol Friday night to hear what the Democratic presidential ticket had to say. Sen. John Kerry thanked his supporters for coming out. He spoke about his wife, running mate and family. Kerry talked about funding schools. "We're going to fund 'No Child Left Behind,'" Kerry said. He spoke of his time as a prosecutor, saying that he never met a child who...

National Public Radio (NPR) September 17, 2003 Wednesday   KEN RUDIN (NPR Political Editor): Well, if you don't want a Northeast liberal as your Democratic nominee, you have John Edwards, the senator from North Carolina. You know, it's interesting, everybody was criticizing John Edwards. This is his first term in the Senate. He only has five years experience in the US Senate. And everybody said he's not qualified, he's not ready for it yet. And here we have General Clark, who has no experience in public office.   News & Record (Greensboro, NC) March 7, 2004 Only one person ultimately...