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“He’s for the little man in America, and that’s the backbone of this country. If (Edwards) doesn’t win, I haven’t decided who to vote for.”

“I had looked forward to having the opportunity to vote my hopes in the primaries-to vote for someone. Now, I guess I’ll just fold my arms until I know who I’m voting against in November, and who I’m settling for.”

“There is a role emerging for him, that of kingmaker, a position of power that could yet put him in the White House as the next vice-president.”

“Edwards has been picking up traction. Again, there’s a lot of ground between him and Obama. But not so much between him and Clinton.”

The take in Washington is that if anyone was using race for political advantage, it was the Clintons. “It’s like Obi-Wan Kenobi yelling at Luke Skywalker because he’s using the Force,” exclaimed a Democratic senator, astounded by Clinton’s audacity.

“I can’t believe that Hillary Clinton wants the world to think that whenever she gets into political trouble, she’s going to have her husband come roaring about, breaking furniture, sucking up oxygen, spewing carbon dioxide.”

“Ask yourselves: what is your candidate going to do with the rising class gap in America? How do they propose to fix the problems that contribute to the ever widening class divide?”