Hillary Staffer: If Edwards Story Had Broken Earlier We Would Have Won Nomination
He’s probably not wrong:
(CNN) – If reporters had nabbed former presidential candidate John Edwards lying about his extramarital affair, Hillary Clinton would have captured the Democratic presidential nomination, her former communications director said.
“I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee,” Howard Wolfson told ABCNews.com in an interview released Monday, because internal campaign polling showed “our voters and Edwards voters were the same people. 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.”
Water under the bridge now, but two things are interesting.
First, it’s funny that the media is even getting flak from the left for covering up the Edwards affair.
Second, this once again demonstrates just how weak a candidate Obama is. Far from having surged to victory in the primaries, Obama barely eked out a victory over Hillary. And even now he doesn’t share the unified support of Democrats. In a recent Pew poll some 30% of self-described Democrats said they were tired of him, and more recent polls show McCain winning among America’s moderates.
Obama’s a weak candidate who can’t even establish a significant lead over John McCain, who is himself a very weak candidate.
















