Is John Edwards Setting the Agenda for the Democratic Nomination?

By Jason Horowitz, New York Observer
Posted on August 3, 2007, Printed on August 3, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/58414/

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- John Edwards may not be leading in the polls. But, he would like to stress, he is leading on the issues.

"I don't need to read a poll, I don't need to see a focus group and I don't need to see what the other candidates are saying," said Mr. Edwards, sitting next to his wife in a blue van pulling away from Kitty's Fine Foods in Charleston. "I know exactly what I would do as president and that's why I have been leading on these issues. And it is exactly the kind of leadership I will provide as president."