Edwards takes jump to the left
By Jim Morrill
Charlotte Observer
When he ran for president in 2004, just as when he ran for the U.S. Senate five years earlier, Democrat John Edwards cast himself as a Southern moderate.
In Congress, he joined centrist coalitions and built a voting record the National Journal said set him "comfortably apart from Senate liberals." Exit polls in Southern primaries showed him winning votes from moderates and even conservatives.
Now, as he throttles toward 2008, Edwards has veered left, outflanking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other presidential rivals for his party's liberal base.
Charlotte Observer
When he ran for president in 2004, just as when he ran for the U.S. Senate five years earlier, Democrat John Edwards cast himself as a Southern moderate.
In Congress, he joined centrist coalitions and built a voting record the National Journal said set him "comfortably apart from Senate liberals." Exit polls in Southern primaries showed him winning votes from moderates and even conservatives.
Now, as he throttles toward 2008, Edwards has veered left, outflanking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other presidential rivals for his party's liberal base.
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