Edwards Attacks Front-Runner Kerry [View All]

Fighting against time and his inability to move to the top of polls in Super Tuesday states, John Edwards sharply attacked front-runner John Kerry as a Washington practitioner of politics as usual.

The North Carolina senator abandoned his mostly congenial style in a Democratic debate Sunday in New York - a mostly two-way faceoff that had contenders Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton grousing about too little airtime.

Of 10 contests scheduled on Tuesday, Edwards already has virtually ceded the four New England states to Kerry and stands little chance of victory in the biggest battlegrounds, New York and California, or in Maryland. That leaves Georgia, Ohio, Minnesota as his targets - and polls show him trailing in those states.

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In his harshest criticism yet of the front-runner, Edwards charged that Kerry had voted for bad trade agreements and that his proposals on a range of issues, including health care, would "drive us deeper and deeper into deficit."

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comment : if edwards has virtually no chance why resort to mud slinging?