Edwards was in North Carolina yesterday

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Last week he was stumping all over West Virginia. His speeches are great and the crowds love him.

Here's the headline and first paragraphs from today's issue of the Raleigh News and Observer, read all over North Carolina. The story filled the top fold of the paper (yes, it pushed CBS to the bottom fold - aren't you glad?)

Edwards: 'Iraq's a mess'
Vowing to improve health care, the N.C. senator tells crowd Bush policies 'will never be with you.'

John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, gets a standing ovation from the hometown crowd at the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center.

RALEIGH -- Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a hometown crowd Monday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were incompetent in their handling of Iraq. And he came close to calling them liars.

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"Iraq's a mess," he told a friendly crowd of more than 1,000 at the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center. "And it's a mess because of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It is that simple."