Edwards' response to the attendance issue was to remind people of Cheney's record as a soft-spoken right-wing wack-job in the House: voting against Head Start, voting against Meals on Wheels, voting to legalize plastic guns that terrorists can use to defeat metal detectors, voting against the Martin Luther King Holiday and against a resolution calling on the racists in South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.

CNN: Paul Begala's Debate Blog: Round 2