Reply #146: True - Edwards said nothing publicly in 2005, even about the

[karynnj]

obvious and provable voter suppression. Kerry spoke in Boston on MLK day in Jan 2005 about the way the black vote was suppressed in Ohio and was ridiculed by the press. There are many public Kerry speeches that touched on this and a very detailed Senate speech, where Senator Boxer who followed him on the floor praised him.

But Edwards was silent on this- while he did speak on other things. Then in 2006, there were first comments to bloggers - but nothing said to the MSM where it could hurt. Then there was Elizabeth's book. Where someone reading here and elsewhere in the blogospere would read the vague comment that he wanted to fight differently than the mainstream reader less sensitized to the issue. Even now, there are no bold statements to the MSM press that 2004 was possibly stolen.

The fact is neither Kerry or Edwards had what they needed to fight with. The Kerrys are known to have spent considerable time looking into things in November 2004 - and there was nothing they could take into a partisan Ohio court. In terms of publicizing the problem, Kerry has said far more, more often than Edwards.