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North Carolina senator, in Buffalo visit, says Kerry shouldn't be too confident

By ROBERT J. McCARTHY
News Political Reporter 2/21/2004


Trailing by more than 50 points in the latest poll of New York Democrats, Sen. John Edwards vowed in Buffalo on Friday night to "fight for every vote" at stake in the March 2 presidential primary, even as Sen. John F. Kerry was shifting his campaign focus to more competitive states.

The North Carolina senator, posing the only obstacle in Kerry's effort to wrap up the nomination on Super Tuesday, told reporters following a rousing speech at the Polish Cadets Hall on Grant Street that Kerry should not consider New York locked up after a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll showed the Massachusetts senator leading, 66 to 14 percent.

"If he is, he's making a mistake," Edwards said. "I intend to fight for every vote I can get in New York."

Indeed, Kerry's populist message seemed to impress an overflow crowd jammed into a small and stifling meeting room. But even while hammering home his stock message blasting President Bush for economic policies creating "two Americas," Edwards could not escape developments that showed him facing an extremely steep uphill battle.

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more: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040221/1052376.asp


"Indeed, Kerry's populist message seemed to impress an overflow crowd jammed into a small and stifling meeting room." Think the author, subbed Kerry's name for Edwards. Honest mistake??