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.
*quote corrected
