Edwards quitting presidential race
Former Sen. John Edwards is dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, CNN has learned.
Edwards has told top advisers about his decision. It is expected he will announce it at a speech in New Orleans, Louisiana, at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
This is a bit surprising to me as since he has been campaigning for President continuosly since 2003 (with a breif break to campaign for Vice-President) I didn’t think he would stop now just because he hasn’t got a chance.
It will be interesting to see how this impacts that Democratic nomination race. My read is that Edwards draws from two types of people, young educated ‘true believer’ progressives and blue collar workers. The former will pretty much all go for Obama, but the second group Clinton probably has an advantage with and although they are not nearly as vocal as the true believers, their are a lot more of the blue collar workers.
Dave: Why wouldn’t he stop if “he hasn’t got a chance” as you correctly pointed out? Just to waste more money and energy? I don’t get your reasoning.