Edwards visits [CA] state, vows fight - San Diego Union Tribune

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CULVER CITY – Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards paid a brief campaign visit to California yesterday, vowing to take the fight to President Bush but never acknowledging John Kerry's steady march toward the nomination.

Edwards is forging ahead on the off chance that the wildly unpredictable Democratic presidential race has one final surprise left in it. The North Carolina senator has dismissed the widely held notion that he is angling for the vice presidential slot on the Democratic ticket.

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To that end, Edwards continues to hammer home his populist message, yesterday delivering another version of his "two Americas" campaign speech before several hundred supporters.

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Edwards is pursuing the unorthodox strategy of seeking to establish himself as the alternative to Kerry without launching an assault on the Massachusetts senator.

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Not since 1960, when Lyndon Johnson was credited with delivering Texas for the John F. Kennedy ticket, has a vice presidential nominee been considered to have made a measurable difference.

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1. 500 people showed up for that event.