Populists Edwards, Huckabee spur competitors’ talk of economic inequality

Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CST; updated 8:00 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

With Super-Duper Tuesday on the horizon, we’re hearing a lot of a word that had pretty well disappeared from Americans’ political lexicon. No, I’m not talking about “liberal.” Nobody except the occasional bloviator wants to be called that. I mean the word “populist.”

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