Elizabeth Edwards is gaining prominence in her husband's campaign after taking another shot at Hillary Clinton in Iowa yesterday.

The Des Moines Register's Erin Jordan reports Edwards said Clinton isn't talking much about women's issues. Edwards: "Maybe she's staying away from some of those issues described as female issues," as Clinton pursues the White House, which Edwards said is seen as a "guy's job." Edwards compared Clinton's presidential run to her own days as an attorney, when she said she steered away from women's issues to be taken seriously by men. "I'm not criticizing her," Edwards said. "She's got a pretty hard maze to walk through."

Edwards was speaking to a mostly female crowd with former NARAL head Kate Michelman. Clinton adviser Ann Lewis said her boss has a "lifelong record of leadership on issues important to women, like equal pay, health care and education."

Edwards will tout her husband as a man who can "stare the worst in the face and not blink" in a television ad up in New Hampshire starting today.

Meanwhile, John Edwards was in Pennsylvania yesterday where he talked about "two public school systems in America. We've got one for those who live in wealthy suburban areas and one for everybody else," reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's David Brown. "We have got to build one public school system," to give equal opportunity to students, Edwards said.

In Mississippi yesterday, a woman mistaked Edwards for one of the Kennedys, considering Robert Kennedy was the last presidential candidate to visit the area, reports the Chicago Tribune's Christi Parsons. Edwards has implicitly drawn the comparison as he retraces RFK's tours and embraces the poor. He's "succeeded on one level, namely getting some attention in the slow summer months before next year's primaries," but is campaigning at a time where anger about inequality and injustice aren't as high as they were during the time of civil rights and Vietnam. Edwards' image as a wealthy lawyer hasn’t helped either.

Barack Obama is getting support from a prominent female, but it's not his wife or even "Obama girl." Oprah Winfrey will hold a September fundraiser for Obama in California, adding to his list of entertainment supporters that includes David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Obama made out the best of any presidential candidate among Wall Streeters in Q1, reports Bloomberg's Julianna Goldman and Kristin Jensen. Among members of the top 10 investment banks, Obama raised more than $730,000. Clinton followed with $425,000 while Rudy Giuliani and John McCain received about $330,000 per person.

McCain got a bit of welcomed news yesterday when his top aide for outreach to social conservatives, Marlys Pompa, decided to stay with his campaign. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Jeremy Wallace reports McCain's Florida campaign is floundering, having been outraised by Ron Paul in Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties. However, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and his supporters in the Gopher State aren't giving up on McCain.

Finally, the failure of an ambitious New York City urban planning project normally wouldn't be news past the Hudson, but it's different when Mike Bloomberg is at the helm. The New York Times' Anahad O'Connor and Danny Hakim report Bloomberg "lashed out at lawmakers in Albany," after the state Senate didn't vote on his plan to charge cars driving in the busiest parts of Manhattan. There weren't enough votes to pass it after Bloomberg reportedly angered state Democrats, whose support was critical because of GOP resistance.

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