Edwards won verdicts and settlements totaling $150
million as a trial attorney, a profession that is anathema to
big and small businesses and the Republican Party. The
president of the American Tort Reform Association calls
him "a wealthy personal injury lawyer masquerading as
a man of the regular people."

John F. Kerry's league: between $27 million and $57 million
in assets that he owns personally or jointly with his wife,
Teresa Heinz Kerry, plus $1-3 billion that Mrs. Kerry
inherited from her late husband, an heir to the Heinz ketchup
fortune.