CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

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CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:14am

No details yet.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:17am

Campaign aides say he's making the announcement at 1:00pm in New Orleans.

#3

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:20am

I knew he didn't stand a chance. But he would have had my vote.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:22am

It's about time.

Now maybe he can fill the void left by Mother Theresa.

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#5

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:34am

Thats too bad - he brought an important voice to the primary.

Personally I think it was the press that has made it impossible for him to be a viable candidate . They only focused on Obama and Clinton. The press has taken a far too important role in this election.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:42am

"The press has taken a far too important role in this election."

He got more coverage than some of the others. He was just on Letterman which is pretty huge.

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#7

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:50am

Its really a shame. He should have atleast stayed in til super tuesday to see if he would have had any say come convention time, cause that would have been interesting.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:52am

I agree with Marc, the press has sacrificed the story for sensationalized Details-At-Eleven watch-me headlines and sound bytes. Edwards was written off in favor a juicier Clinton/Obama
smackdown.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:54am

So, does this benefit Clinton or Obama?

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#10

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:12am

Depends on whether he decides to be a kingmaker or a queenmaker.

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#11

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:13am

" The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement."
John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race

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#12

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:21am

I think it'll depend on what each camp offers him--does he want to be a VP or an AG....

#13

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:22am

Loved Edwards and would liked to have heard more from him. I wish him the best.

#14

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:23am

I think lildogs is correct.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:55am

He may have been on Letterman, but the mainstream news media has virtually ignored him since Iowa, slobbering over the two way fight they themselves helped create. I expected more of CNN, but they're a big corporation and no doubt against Edwards' populist and anti-big business message. I'm disappointed he didn't stay in through Tuesday, but I assume he has his reasons.

#16

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:59am

Totally, I don't think any news agency wishes to promote a guy who plans to diminish their influence.

#17

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:02am

I think we all suffer when all candidates don't get equal time (i.e., Kucinich).

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:12am

Strikes me as nice fellow but his political capital went down the drain with Kerry's presidential aspirations. Too many Dems declared him damaged goods after Kerry and he failed to carry NC in 2004. Yes, the mainly liberal media do want either the Tammy Wynettish-Clinton or Kennedesque-Obama to be sworn in as the next president.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:17am

The mainly liberal media? Like the one ran by that pinko commie Rupert Murdoch? Give me a break... maybe the reporters and journalists tend to be liberal, but their bosses almost never are.

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re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:32am

Right, the so called liberal media is a joke. If the media had a liberal bias they would have given far more time to Edwards (and Kucinich) who is actually a liberal.

#21

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:34am

And Ron Paul...

#22

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:38pm

Javero--do you honestly think the media is "liberal"? Do you not understand how for 7 years or more the media has constantly reinforced the conservative status quo?

Or do you really think the media is "liberal"?

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#23

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:42pm

"Do you not understand how for 7 years or more the media has constantly reinforced the conservative status quo?"

What media is that? The windmills in your mind media? The media falls consistently on the liberal side.

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#24

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:47pm

The national cable news networks are decidedly conservative. Having said that, there is plenty of liberalism alive and well in print and local media.

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#25

re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out

Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:50pm

What channels are you watching Goth? Aside from the NYTimes, I can't think of a major media outlet that has a liberal bias--the other NYC papers certainly don't--the free ones do--but that's their purpose.