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Edwards Would Decline Veep Slot After a speech in Las Vegas, John Edwards said he would not accept the nomination for vice president as he did four years ago, Reuters reports.Edwards also declined to say whether he would endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race. Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Backs Off Veep Refusal John Edwards "backed away from statements he made in Spain earlier this month that he would not take the vice presidential slot if Barack Obama offered it to him," according to the Chicago Tribune. "Still, Edwards told moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week that he was no Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Told Aides He Would Consider Veep Role Though John Edwards said last month he would decline a vice presidential nomination, the New York Times reports that "privately, he told aides that he would consider the role of vice president and favored the position of attorney general, which would appeal to his experience of decades spent in cour Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Open to Being Obama's Running Mate John Edwards said that "if he were asked to accept the vice presidential slot or a cabinet position in a potential Barack Obama administration, he would 'seriously consider' whatever the Illinois senator asked him to do," CNN reports. When told it's an "open secret" that he's on Obama Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Did Edwards Slip Help Clinton in New Hampshire? While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and others will credit Bill Clinton, there is some evidence to suggest that the collapse of the John Edwards campaign in the Granite State may have giv Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards' future political impact lost with affair
(AP) AP - John Edwards lost a prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention. He likely blew a chance at a possible Cabinet post in a Barack Obama administration. And he may very well have lost any hope of being the voice for America's poor and forgotten. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Obama Asked Edwards for His Support In an interview with ABC News, Sen. Barack Obama "said that he has let Sen. John Edwards know that he would like his endorsement should Edwards decide to drop out of the race. While Obama did not admit to rumors of back-door-dealings for delegate sharing, he said that he would strongly welcome a nod Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Cover Up Continues A front page New York Times piece investigates an elaborate attempt by John Edwards to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, "one that is continuing even after he admitted last week that he had an affair with Ms. Hunter but denied that he fathered her child.""The revelations of ties a Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Obama Backers Drop Hints About Edwards "Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration," according to Robert Novak. The appointment of Edwards "would please not only the union leaders supporting him for president but org Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Romney's Pushy Campaign for Veep John Heilemann: "That Mitt Romney wishes to occupy the VP slot on the Republican ticket with John McCain comes as no surprise -- but the blatantness of his campaign is highly amusing. As a general rule, the way one goes about these things is to be more or less subtle. You hint. You nudge. You get yo Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Lie Cost Clinton Nomination Sen. Hillary Clinton "would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year," insists Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, ABC News reports. Said Wolfson: "I believe we would have won Iowa, and Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Second Choices Give Edwards Clear Lead in Iowa An InsiderAdvantage tracking poll in Iowa shows a statistical tie between Sen. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic presidential race with Sen. Barack Obama starting to lag. Clinton leads with 30%, followed by Edwards at 29%, and Obama at 22%, with 14% committed to other Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Rethinking Edwards in Iowa Walter Shapiro: "As someone who has watched Edwards closely since 2001, I would like to dissent from the fast-forming conventional wisdom that the 2004 vice-presidential nominee lost in Iowa because his populist message was too harsh. Edwards lost because the fervor for Obama overwhelmed everything Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Ponders Endorsement John Edwards "met secretly" with Sen. Hillary Clinton and will meet with Sen. Barack Obama about a possible endorsement, FOX News reports. "Edwards has been 'in talks' with Clinton and Barack Obama 'for weeks' about an endorsement but has not yet said who he will endorse or when he wi Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards to Endorse Obama Tonight - Washington Post MLive.comEdwards to Endorse Obama TonightWashington Post - 1 hour agoJohn Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at a Grand Rapids, Mich., rally. --Peter Slevin | More » Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested today that the Democratic party would have a nominee, in all likelihood Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Will Edwards Speak at Convention? There's still no word on when John Edwards will speak at the Democratic convention, but the Charlotte Observer reports "a number of Democrats are saying that Edwards needs to publicly address National Enquirer stories that have alleged he had an affair with a campaign worker and fathered her baby Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Edwards Misjudged Walter Shapiro on John Edwards: "I naively believed that I knew Edwards as well as I understood anyone in the political center ring. Yet I never saw this sex scandal coming -- partly because I accepted the mythology that surrounded the Edwards' marriage and partly because I assumed that any hint Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Obama, Edwards Surge in Iowa Tracking Poll The last Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby tracking poll before today's caucuses shows Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards gaining ground overnight with Sen. Hillary Clinton faling four points to third place -- "a finish that, if it held, would deal a dramatic setback to the one-time Democratic front-runner." Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse Elizabeth Edwards "rejected speculation that she might endorse New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination," according to The Politico. Said Edwards: "If you listened to what I said and not to what pundits said I was thinking, you would know that I was ne Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Political Markets Suggest Obama Benefits From Edwards Exit The Wall Street Journal looks at the political futures markets to try to determine who supporters of John Edwards will gravitate towards now that he's out of the race. "When word of Mr. Edwards's pending withdrawal leaked, Mr. Obama's stock rose. So the markets tell us that Mr. Obama Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |