Following a fundraising quarter in which he let Bill Richardson gain some significant ground on him in the presidential race, John Edwards is making some major changes to his campaign.
Meanwhile,
Edwards, who is in third place in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised about $9 million in the second quarter of 2007, while the fourth-place
Now, according to the Associated Press, Edwards plans to add two prominent Democrats as senior advisers and take some responsibilities away from Campaign Manager David Bonior.
The two Democrats, leaders of a labor-backed anti-Wal-Mart group, could join the campaign as early as next week, the news service reported, with one running day-to-day campaign operations and the other serving as communications director.
Bonior would keep his title but become more of a public spokesman who would travel with Edwards.
The changes could help Edwards among union supporters, which will be critical in states like
The governor visited Marlow, N.H., on Thursday. According to the Associated Press, President William Howard Taft planned to pass through the town in 1912, but took a wrong turn and never arrived. That was the closest the community, with a population of 800, came to seeing a president or presidential candidate until Thursday, when
It was, in part, a publicity stunt, but I’m sure it also meant a lot to those 100 people. And while most of the top presidential candidates spent the Fourth of July in
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