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Vice vs. Vice
The voters in Connecticut may have trouble keeping track of former Democratic vice presidential nominees Thursday.
John Edwards, who had the second spot on the Democratic ticket with John Kerry in 2004, will be in New Haven today to campaign for Democratic senatorial nominee Ned Lamont.
That means Edwards will be campaigning against the man who immediately preceded him as the Democratic vice presidential nomination - Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
Lieberman, who was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000, lost his party’s nomination to Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month, but is now running as an independent for a fourth term in the Senate.
Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, voted just like Lieberman in 2002 in support of the war in Iraq. But Edwards was the first of those potential 2008 presidential candidates who voted for the war to express regret for having done so.
Lieberman, on the other hand, has remained steadfast in his support for the war, part of the reason he lost his party’s nomination to Lamont, the anti-war candidate.
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