Veep Candidate Quoted: 'We told these people that if they stood in line and fought for their right to vote, we would fight to have them counted. We promised.'
A Heartbreaking Excerpt From 'Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers', due out next month
By Winter Patriot on 7/27/2006, 1:55pm PT  

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

In a sidebar on the book-review "Edwards emerges from cancer with grace", The News & Observer's Rob Christensen quotes Elizabeth Edwards describing her husband John's side of a conversation with "unidentified individuals" ...

I listened to John in the other room, arguing into a speakerphone that we could not concede until the votes [in Ohio] were counted. "We promised," he said. "We told these people that if they stood in line and fought for their right to vote, we would fight to have them counted. We promised."

NB: Elizabeth Edwards' book, "Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers", is scheduled for publication September 26 by Broadway Books. Christensen reviewed an advance copy of uncorrected galley proofs.

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