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The Kerry-Edwards ticket lost to incumbent president George W. Bush and Dick Cheney with 48% of the vote to the Republicans' 51%.
The Kerry-Edwards ticket lost to incumbent president George W. Bush and Dick Cheney with 48% of the vote to the Republicans' 51%.
===Post 2004 Election===
After losing the bid for Vice President in the 2004 election, he became the director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill.
===2008 Presidential Candidacy===
===2008 Presidential Candidacy===
The general feeling is that this scandal has put a serious career ending dent into Edwards' political prospects. Considering all that has transpired plus Elizabeth has terminal cancer, John Edwards only has a future being a snake oil salesman. It has removed him from Vice President consideration, hampered all hopes for Presidential convention speeches and of his becoming Attorney General, should a Democrat win in November.
The general feeling is that this scandal has put a serious career ending dent into Edwards' political prospects. Considering all that has transpired plus Elizabeth has terminal cancer, John Edwards only has a future being a snake oil salesman. It has removed him from Vice President consideration, hampered all hopes for Presidential convention speeches and of his becoming Attorney General, should a Democrat win in November.
===Post Political Career===
===Attacks on Ann Coulter===
In March 2007, Coulter was attacked after saying,
{{Cquote|Oh, and I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm -- so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards.}}
Recently, ABC’s [[Chris Cuomo]] ambushed Ann Coulter with a personal attack on her and the [[GOP]] by asking,
Recently, ABC’s [[Chris Cuomo]] ambushed Ann Coulter with a personal attack on her and the [[GOP]] by asking,
{{Cquote|No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I'mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time [[Bill Maher]] said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word...But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was ''not'' joking and saying he wished [[Dick Cheney]] had been killed in a [[terrorist]] attack -- so I've learned my lesson: If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. <ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21345 That Was No Lady -- That Was My Husband], by Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', 06/28/2007.</ref>}}
{{Cquote|No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I'mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time [[Bill Maher]] said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word...But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was ''not'' joking and saying he wished [[Dick Cheney]] had been killed in a [[terrorist]] attack -- so I've learned my lesson: If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. <ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21345 That Was No Lady -- That Was My Husband], by Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', 06/28/2007.</ref>}}
Six days after the ''[[New York Times]]'' published an article about the questionable practices of Edwards non-profit group which allegedly had been founded with the stated aim to fight poverty but had in fact been used by staffers for travel and campaign work, [[Elizabeth Edwards]] in what was obviously an effort to detract from the revelations attacked Ann Coulter on [[Chris Matthews]] HARDBALL. Matthews, a former Democratic presidential speech writer for [[Jimmy Carter]], with a reputation for constantly interrupting guests in mid-sentence, never once interrupted Elizabeth Edwards. Coulter was not informed before hand by Matthews and staff she would be appearing with the candidates wife. Mrs. Edwards said,
Six days after the ''[[New York Times]]'' published an article about the questionable practices of Edwards non-profit group which allegedly had been founded with the stated aim to fight poverty but had in fact been used by staffers for travel and campaign work, [[Elizabeth Edwards]] in what was obviously an effort to detract from the revelations attacked Ann Coulter on [[Chris Matthews]] HARDBALL. Matthews, a former Democratic presidential speech writer for [[Jimmy Carter]], with a reputation for constantly interrupting guests in mid-sentence, never once interrupted Elizabeth Edwards. Coulter was not informed before hand by Matthews and staff she would be appearing with the candidates wife. Mrs. Edwards said,
By Justin Frank, 2004. Retrieved from the History News Network 29 June 2007.</ref>
By Justin Frank, 2004. Retrieved from the History News Network 29 June 2007.</ref>
The staged event netted Edwards sorely lagging campaign $450,000 from 2300 donors using cropped, out-of-context video snippets within 24 hours. <ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/06/29/compromise-looms-in-private-equity-fight/ Edwards and McCain Battle to stay in 2008 top tier], John Harwood, ''Wall Street Journal'' Washinton Wire, June 29, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/13791 ABC Links Edwards/Coulter Call to '08 Fundraising Deadline, NBC Distorts Coulter], Brad Wilmouth, Newsbusters, June 28, 2007.</ref>
The staged event netted Edwards sorely lagging campaign $450,000 from 2300 donors using cropped, out-of-context video snippets within 24 hours.<ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/06/29/compromise-looms-in-private-equity-fight/ Edwards and McCain Battle to stay in 2008 top tier], John Harwood, ''Wall Street Journal'' Washinton Wire, June 29, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/13791 ABC Links Edwards/Coulter Call to '08 Fundraising Deadline, NBC Distorts Coulter], Brad Wilmouth, Newsbusters, June 28, 2007.</ref> Edwards would later call Coulter a "she-devil"<ref>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/08/edwards-calls-c.html Edwards Calls Coulter 'She-Devil'], ''ABC News'', August 17, 2007.</ref>
==Miscellania==
==Miscellania==