Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The John Edwards Scandal - Effects of the Coverup...

Some Assert The Cover-Up Gave Gave Obama Iowa

Would Hillary Clinton have won Iowa if John Edwards had been forced out of the race? Howard Wolfson thinks so....

Wolfson, former director of communications for Clinton's presidential bid, suggested to ABC News that the New York senator would have prevailed in Iowa had Edwards been forced from the race before voting started in early January.

"Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," Wolfson told ABC. "They were older, pro-union. Not all, but maybe two-thirds of them would have been for us and we would have barely beaten Obama."

It is a pure hypothetical, of course, and the entire dynamics of the contest would have been different without Edwards. But the public data do not bolster the notion that Clinton would have won.
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Edward's presidential aspirations are pretty much finished...





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