Recently, two top-tear democratic candidates have released agendas on an important issue. Both John Edwards and Barack Obama have declared their ideas on poverty. Edwards has made direct reference to Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against poverty, obviously hoping to imply comparisons from old RFK supporters and draw a crowd of younger American’s who have grown to know the Kennedy story. Obama’s plan has similarities to Edwards’s. The amount of detail these top candidates are already employing indicates the breakneck pace that has been set for this campaign. However, such speed also places pressure on other candidates to do the same as Edwards and Obama already have. No doubt poverty is a key in the democratic arsenal that will be used to attempt exposure of conservative candidates. There are unintended consequences of such actions though, and democratic candidates need to be wary of who exactly they will expose.

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