Former candidate John Edwards, who endorsed Obama May 14 in Michigan, was back in the state today stumping for the Illinois senator. Edwards was speaking in Detroit at the national convention for ACORN, a national community organizing group.

From the Detroit News reporting:

With his trademark Southern accent, Edwards said Republican candidate John McCain will build a wall around progress to low-income people, but promised Obama "will tear it down" as president.

"It's time to have an economy that works for everybody," said Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina. "It is a moral outrage that kids go to bed hungry. We can end the shame of 37 million people living in poverty."

Although Michigan has voted Democratic in the last four presidential elections, John Kerry won in 2004 by just 3 points, and the state is considered an electoral battleground in the race between McCain and Obama. Obama was publicly endorsed by both Edwards and Al Gore in Michigan, which could prove to be the deciding state in November.