"The race could even be closer this time," said Cate Edwards. "When I'm out there [visiting schools], I basically think, 'what if we lose by one vote or win by one vote?' That's what is at stake here.

In the week before Elizabeth Edwards’s death, her 28-year-old daughter Cate, an anti-discrimination lawyer, told her mom she was engaged to longtime sweetheart Trevor Upham, whom she met at ...