Kerry rally draws overflow crowd in MN

[maddezmom]

BY BILL SALISBURY

Pioneer Press


Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry demonstrated Wednesday evening in St. Paul that he is more than a match for his chief rival, John Edwards — at least when it comes to drawing large, raucous crowds to campaign rallies.

A capacity throng of 2,900 greeted Kerry at the Macalester College field house for a rally leading up to Minnesota's caucuses and Super Tuesday. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said a fire marshal turned away more than 1,000 others at the door. About 2,000 had turned out to hear Edwards at a rally here Sunday.

But the U.S. senator from Massachusetts never mentioned Edwards. It soon became clear that Kerry's only target in his 30-minute speech was President Bush.

"We are here to mark the beginning of the end of the Bush presidency," he said.

In a stump speech he has given across the nation, he faulted Bush for sending millions of jobs abroad, leaving millions of Americans without health care, breaking his no-child-left-behind promise and failing to protect seniors' retirement savings. He accused the president of waging a reckless foreign policy and alienating allies by going to war in Iraq without their support.

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more: http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/politics/8042021.htm

some interesting comments by Edwards' campaign manager further down in the article. :)

[molly]

1. Anyone from DU?