U.S. Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC), center, watches returns from Tuesday's Primary with wife Elizabeth (R) and daughter Cate (L) at a private home in Columbia, South Carolina February 3, 2004. Family friend Jill Moylon (left rear) and her son John are also watching the returns with Edwards and his family. Edwards held a narrow lead over national front-runner John Kerry in South Carolina Tuesday as he pushed home his favorite son campaign in a state crucial to his hopes in the Democratic presidential race. US ELECTION REUTERS/Ellen Ozier ELO