Was John Edwards the Marco Rubio of 2008?

[Blair]

I'd say Edwards was a much better speaker; and barring Obama running, he most likely would have had a good shot as the anti-Clinton candidate.

He was like Rubio in that he never appeared comfortable in the Senate, and simply saw it as a springboard but he never had at all as much hype in his first national race (2004) as Rubio did in his (2016)