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Media Still Dream about Their Dreamy Candidate John Edwards
  27 Apr 2012     12:13 am

Sen. John Edwards was a dream presidential candidate for the media – a populist, lefty lawyer with face and even hair for TV. (Especially the hair.) The North Carolina senator was a self-made man who also made millions of dollars along the way and won the Democratic endorsement to be the vice presidential candidate in 2004. He was the poster boy for ambitious trial lawyers everywhere and his run for president had the media buzzing. Even his wife’s awful struggle with cancer was used as a plus for his campaign.
Until it all …