Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean told CNN Thursday that Democrats could win North Carolina if Cooper was on the White House ticket because North Carolina Republicans are running a "crackpot" and have a "corrupt" state legislature.
CHAPEL HILL — Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean displayed a self-deprecating wit, but Fox television show host John Stossel wasn’t laughing about what he viewed as Dean’s flawed grasp of the free market. The politician and the libertarian consumer affairs journalist exchanged good-natured barbs and ideas Sept. 20.
RALEIGH — As national Democratic Party leaders such as Howard Dean and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton heaped criticism on President Bush's administration over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, only a couple of North Carolina's congressmen outwardly joined in.
RALEIGH — Two weeks before the Iowa presidential caucuses, Sen. John Edwards still shows remarkable restraint, compared to his fellow Democratic candidates, in remarks about former Gov. Howard Dean, the front-runner in most polls. In a debate Sunday night in Iowa, Edwards went relatively easy on Dean, and even received an apology from him. Many political observers think that Edwards may be resigned to Dean winning the nomination, and that Edwards is pursuing the party’s vice presidential nomination.
RALEIGH — He’s struggling in Democratic presidential primary polls and falling among the candidates in fundraising, but North Carolina Sen. John Edwards garnered a top distinction Wednesday in another category. He was the first person interviewed by the hosts of CNN’s “Crossfire” on the network’s “Election Express” bus, in Manchester, N.H. Edwards insisted that Dean wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee after CNN's Tucker Carlson pressed him to explain why he didn’t think Dean could defeat Bush.
RALEIGH — He’s struggling in Democratic presidential primary polls and falling among the candidates in fundraising, but North Carolina Sen. John Edwards garnered a top distinction Wednesday in another category. He was the first person interviewed by the hosts of CNN’s “Crossfire” on the network’s “Election Express” bus, in Manchester, N.H. Edwards insisted that Dean wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee after CNN's Tucker Carlson pressed him to explain why he didn’t think Dean could defeat Bush.
RALEIGH — After a year-and-a-half absence from the NBC News program “Meet the Press,” presidential candidate John Edwards returned to the show last Sunday. The North Carolina senator had received poor reviews of his performance on May 5, 2002, under the interrogation of host Tim Russert. NBC had tried for months to get Edwards on the program again. His spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri told the newspaper at the time that the show wasn’t a priority because “voters don’t care.” But on Sunday, Edwards returned and was challenged about his record on the Iraq war issue.
RALEIGH — The conflict between presidential candidates John Edwards and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in the Democratic debate Tuesday night overshadowed questions about the North Carolina senator’s view of Georgia Sen. Zell Miller. The moderator reminded Edwards that he had once said, "It’s absolutely critical that Democrats reach out to people like Zell Miller." Now, with Miller endorsing President Bush and promoting his new book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, Edwards answered that he "disagreed with Zell Miller, obviously" and that Miller does not speak for most Southerners.
