Familiar Face, but a New Tone to the Message - "[John] Edwards, his party’s nominee for vice president in 2004, has taken on a sharper tone since that campaign ended in defeat. He is campaigning as a harder-edged economic populist now, which he says represents more a change in tone than in substance. He says he is both more electable and more authentic than Mrs. Clinton, and more experienced than Mr. Obama." [New York Times]