Edwards testing waters in Louisiana

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Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, will be reviving the "Two Americas" theme from his failed presidential and vice presidential bids when he visits Louisiana on Monday. Edwards, who is eyeing a run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, was invited to Baton Rouge by the local chapter to the NAACP and will take part in Martin Luther King Day festivities. Later, he is expected to travel to New Orleans, his first visit to the city since Hurricane Katrina. Since the 2004 election, Edwards has focused many of his policy pronouncements on poverty and has promoted a New America Initiative that focuses on creating jobs and infrastructure in the Gulf region that improves the lives and opportunities of low-income people beyond what they were before Katrina struck. Although a Democratic presidential candidate might be considered a long shot for carrying Louisiana, there is no shortage of sentiment that President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have stumbled in their response to the disaster.

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