Edwards: Bush election wasn't a mandate

Edwards: Bush election wasn't a mandate

Senator's first public comments discuss vote, wife's breast cancer

TIM FUNK

Observer Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - In his first public comments about the election results, Sen. John Edwards told NBC's Katie Couric on Thursday that voters did not give President Bush a mandate and that the country remains deeply divided.

"I don't think he has a mandate. He's wrong (to say that he does)," the N.C. Democrat who ran as vice president said on the "Today" show. "If you look at the election results, it was -- by any reasonable measure -- a very close election ... We can only hope -- although I haven't seen evidence of it yet -- that he'll recognize that there's a lot of division and a lot of important work to be done in this country."

Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, was equally critical of Bush's post-election stance: "If (Sen.) John Kerry had won, he would have had exactly the same responsibility to pull this country together, not to say, `My way or the highway.' "

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...the congressional election WAS a mandate.

No one should understand this better than Sen. Edwards, as the Democrats managed to lose his Senate seat in the process of not getting any Southern Leverage from having him on the ticket.

There are reports of a lot of voter fraud in N.C.

It was only 200,000 votes away for Bowles in N.C. since he was the one running for Edwards' Seat (Democrat). Burr won - and we don't know that it wasn't through fraud or not.

Same with the Presidential election...