Kerry's wife has a modest little flat in Pittsburgh and PA is a swing state. Actually, the only state that matters this election is Ohio.
It's more than a modest little flat. It is a 90 acre estate in snooty Fox Chapel.
Picking Edwards won't cinch up North Carolina or the south for that matter for Kerry. It'll be like Gore losing his home state of TN, and the Democrats are left to fudge around with the law.
Edwards has received a lot of favorable media coverage in Ohio. A lot of folks in Northeast Ohio are feeding into the constant drumming of stories about manufacturing job losses here, and are "anyone but Bush". Look for Kerry/Edwards to be up by 5-8 points in the next Ohio polling.
And Ohio will be in the Bush column.