RALEIGH, N.C. -- In the final week of Fox's American Idol, it was hard to find anyone here who wasn't rooting for hometown boy Clay Aiken. But another native talent with outsize ambitions was having a tougher time. For Sen. John Edwards, there were no celebratory front-page stories or arenas jammed with cheering fans, just the usual commentary and letters to the editor arguing that A, he's an opportunistic novice with no business running for president, or B, he's one of his party's brightest hopes and a credit to his state. Some Democrats look at Edwards and see ''Bill Clinton...
