Former Sen. John Edwards suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday afternoon after disappointing showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
I wrote previously that Edwards really drove much of the debate during the 2008 Democratic primary. He was the first candidate to release a universal health care plan, the first to really push hard [...]

Perhaps that front page article in the Register a week or so ago (and all of the blogospheric banter leading up to it) about the two different John Edwardses was a bit premature, as we see the Edwards campaign use the last month of the Iowa Caucuses to tie everything the former senator said in [...]

In last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton was prepared for anything her opponents threw at her. The first ten minutes set the tone of the rest of the night, as both Clinton herself and her fans in the audience slapped down any overt attempts to criticize her. It changed the dynamics [...]

John Deeth covered former Sen. John Edwards’s “major foreign policy address” in Iowa City today for Iowa Independent, and he spoke briefly with Joe Trippi at the beginning. Here’s what Trippi had to say about Clinton and, perhaps more interestingly, about Obama having missed his chance to make a dent in the race:
The focus [...]

Former Michigan Congressman David Bonior, who is former Sen. John Edwards’s national campaign manager, wrote an op-ed for Iowa Independent on why he supported Edwards taking his name off the Michigan ballot:
John Edwards’ decision has generated a lot of controversy, especially in Michigan - a state that I had the honor of representing in Congress [...]

In Iowa, Democrats have lost elections over gun control issues. When I knocked doors in rural areas in 2004 for a State House candidate I was volunteering for, I heard constant complaints from no-party voters who shut the door in my face because my candidate wanted to take their guns away. That was [...]

Yesterday, State Rep. Mark Smith, a social worker who represents a district that includes Marshalltown in Central Iowa, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. The question about Smith’s endorsement was never “whom” he would endorse; it was “whether” and “when” he would endorse.
Democratic politics in Smith’s district are essentially run by the United Auto Workers, who [...]

Today is Blog Action Day, and this year’s topic is the environment. Participating bloggers are encouraged to write a post about environmental issues, but not to post something that wouldn’t fit into the normal mold of their blog. Keeping with those instructions, I just wanted to update you on how environmental organizations are [...]

Sen. John Edwards’s campaign just wrapped up a conference call to discuss their Iowa SEIU endorsement (and, it turns out, endorsements from other as-yet-unnamed SEIU state councils), and they’re obviously touting it as a “major victory” and an “enormous boost” here.
But they also played up the fact that Sen. Edwards worked very hard to get [...]

I talked about this on Taylor Marsh’s show Wednesday (in case you didn’t know, I’m Taylor’s regular Wednesday guest), and now NBC News has the tip. Former Sen. John Edwards will receive the endorsement of the SEIU’s Iowa Local Monday:
At 5:30pm Monday ET in Iowa city, John Edwards will get SEIU-Iowa nod and the [...]