MANCHESTER, NH -- There's a handmade banner in the Manchester
headquarters of the John Edwards campaign that reads "New Hampshire
[heart]'s Elizabeth + John." Isn't that a peculiar order to put it
in?
To be fair, Edwards no longer seems to be playing the
wife-with-cancer card on the stump. When I caught him at an
appearance in Laconia this afternoon, the theme he kept returning
to is that he's a fighter (although the "kick that guy's butt" line he's
used in Iowa has been softened to "don't ever walk away from a
fight"*). More on that Friday, though, when I'll have a column
wrapping up this trip, which if all goes well will include a day
with Mitt Romney tomorrow.