The way to do this is to use the tools that are out there for free and I'd like to give you some examples of what our candidate has gotten in the line of free advertising recently.
You can't buy this kind of stuff folks and it's all good. This shows me I've made the right choice.
John Edwards Sticks to His Message
As John Edwards travels the country, he's sticking to his message—and caring for a sick wife.
By Jonathan Darman
Newsweek
April 9, 2007 issue - After Bill Clinton, there is perhaps no spouse in the 2008 presidential race as powerful as Elizabeth Edwards. She is her husband's closest adviser and toughest enforcer. She has her own fund-raising following. She revises drafts of some of John's speeches. Outsiders angling for staff positions get grilled intensively by the candidate—and his wife. "This doesn't require any parsing of words," John Edwards says. "Elizabeth is involved in everything."
Now Edwards and his top counselor are facing their toughest campaign challenge yet: how to manage her future on the trail. In the two weeks since the Edwardses learned that Elizabeth's breast cancer has returned and is incurable, the couple has seen an outpouring of support. Lance Armstrong, a family friend, called. So did George H.W. Bush, who suggested a specialist at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The campaign raised $540,000 online in the week after Elizabeth's announcement. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, 56 percent of adults think Edwards made the right decision by staying in the race; only 12 percent think he is trying to use his wife's illness to his own political advantage. "When I walk down the street I can't move," John tells NEWSWEEK. "People stop me: 'How's Elizabeth? We're thinking about her'."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17889145/site/newsweek/?from=rss
WASHINGTON - As he tries to explain how he'll cope with the return of his wife's cancer, presidential hopeful
John Edwards is opening up about another family struggle — the death of his teenage son Wade 11 years ago.
His family life suddenly in the spotlight, Edwards has responded by speaking about an experience bound to bring him sympathy, humanize his campaign and focus on perseverance after tragedy.
The discussion began last Thursday when John and Elizabeth Edwards announced her breast cancer had spread to her bone. It continued Saturday when Edwards was asked if he could balance the campaign and her diagnosis.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_lost_son_4
Mar 31, 2007 8:08 pm US/Eastern
John Edwards Makes Campaign Stop In Aventura
(CBS4) AVENTURA John Edwards made a campaign stop in South Florida on Saturday to continue his fundraising drive as he prepares for a presidential run in 2007.
The former Democratic senator from North Carolina met with supporters in Aventura, as he continued a whirlwind week which saw him make campaign stops in Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky., Youngstown, Ohio, before arriving in Miami, where he hopes to raise as much as possible before the first-quarter campaign finance reports are due.
It’s going very well so far,” Edwards told CBS-4 on Saturday. “We’ve got a lot of momentum. We’re doing very well in our fundraising and our political work around the country and we feel very encouraged.”
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_090201021.html
By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer Sat Mar 31, 7:31 PM ET
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -
John Edwards returned Saturday to his legal roots and his native state as he wrapped up a fundraising blitz.
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Edwards stopped at a reception at the upscale office building of one of South Carolina's biggest trial lawyer firms, just across from Charleston's port and near the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier museum.
In his last run for president, the former North Carolina senator who made his fortune as a trial lawyer, was asking his colleagues to reach deep in their pockets get his first presidential bid off the ground. But it's different this time around, Edwards said Saturday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail_30
Edwards' presidential run to be family affair
April 1, 2007
BY TONY LEYS
DES MOINES, Iowa --Iowans probably will see a lot of John Edwards' family over the next year, his wife said Friday.
The couple plan to pull their two youngest children out of school next fall and take them along on the presidential campaign trail, Elizabeth Edwards said.
The Edwardses were considering the move before last week, when she learned her breast cancer had returned and become incurable. Because of that news, she said, she and her husband are more determined to keep the children -- Emma Claire, 8, and Jack, 6 -- close at hand.
''Selfishly, we love being with them,'' she said.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/321808,CST-NWS-edwards01.article
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Online donors give to Edwards
Presidential hopeful surges near $3 million via Internet donations
MIKE BAKER
Associated Press
RALEIGH --
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards surged toward an Internet fundraising benchmark of $3 million Saturday, just hours before the campaign closed the books on the first quarter.
Fred Baron, the campaign's chief fundraiser, said it was "a fair assumption" to say the Edwards campaign had already passed its total fundraising target of $7.4 million, noting that campaigns generally gain more dollars through non-Internet donations.
Edwards, a former trial lawyer, has been tirelessly touring the nation courting donors since he joined the 2008 race in December.
"We are well along the way to financing this campaign," Baron said. "We're very gratified."
It took Edwards two months to reach $1 million in online contributions. The former senator from North Carolina has since taken one month to make up the remainder. He has received an influx of donations since his March 22 announcement that his wife, Elizabeth, has an incurable form of cancer.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/115/story/70388.html
This is good, really good. This is a campaign managers dream. It's great being on the right train headed in the right direction...
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