It’s all about Florida and Michigan for her, and MSNBC has the details about how she’s using this narrative to spin, spin, spin…
“There were some folks who didn’t want Kentucky to vote,” she said. “There are some folks, you can see them on TV every night, who wanted it to be over for me after [...]

I think that was basically assumed, but the media definitely used his endorsement to suggest he could be in the running.
Today, on TODAY, he puts those rumors to rest…

But Attorney General?
Well, that’s another story…

I talked about one of Edwards’ switchers earlier, and now 6 out of the 8 from South Carolina and 1 from Iowa have announced they’re backing Obama.
They are…

Daniel Boan, South Carolina
Christine Brennan-Bond, South Carolina
Robert Groce, South Carolina
Susan Smith, South Carolina
Mike Evatt, South Carolina
Lauren Bilton, South Carolina
Machelle Crum, Iowa

This has the net effect of him winning [...]

I missed this earlier…
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—A New Hampshire Democratic Party delegate who had supported John Edwards says he will support Barack Obama, now that Edwards has endorsed his former political rival for the party’s presidential nominee.
Joshua Denton of Portsmouth, 26, an Iraq war veteran, says he thinks that both Obama and Hillary Clinton would be a [...]

Here’s a clip.

Hopefully we’ll have the whole endorsement later.

I called this a couple days ago after a very strong hint by the former North Carolina senator.
From ABC:
ABC News’ Kate Snow, Raelyn Johnson, Sunlen Miller, and Rick Klein Report: Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding [...]

It’s at about :30 seconds in. Edwards was asked if he’ll be able to endorse the person he voted for in North Carolina. Edwards said, with a big grin on this face, “I’d say highly likely, yes.”

I think that’s pretty obvious.

Just in case you missed it. No big revelations here, but he does talk about how Hillary has a big math problem.

Of note, this is the first I’ve heard of HalfInTen.org, a new organization Edwards is backing with the goal of cutting the poverty rate in half in ten years. Definitely a noble goal.

Remember, John and Elizabeth Edwards won’t endorse, but most of the Edwards crew has gotten behind Obama in a big way so it has the net effect of being endorsed by Edwards
And now he’s snagged possibly the biggest one of all. Well, except for Joe Trippi.
From ABC:
Bonior, a former Michigan congressman, was once the [...]

It’s official. They like and dislike things about both candidates, so they can’t decide.
First Elizabeth…
“I like Hillary’s health care plan.”
What doesn’t she like [...]? “The lobbyist money,” she adds.
On Obama [...]: “The fact that he has motivated so many young people to be involved, I think is fantastic.”
But, she adds: “I don’t [...]

No doubt this will do a lot to solidify a win for Obama in North Carolina.
From NY Times:
[...] nearly 50 of his most prominent backers lined up behind Senator Barack Obama today, in a gesture designed to give Mr. Obama a heavy boost of support less than two weeks before the North Carolina primary on [...]

Seems like a lot of Edwards’ supporters jumped on the Barack bandwagon.
From TPM:
The Iowa caucuses might have been over two months ago, but Barack Obama is still making gains off of them. In today’s Iowa county Democratic conventions — which those caucus delegates were elected to participate in — Obama picked up the votes of [...]

I’ve been asking myself this over the course of the past couple weeks, especially since he didn’t endorse before Super Tuesday when I think it really could have made a difference.
And now ABC News reports that he may back Hillary because of her “experience.”
Huh?
Obviously it would seem very odd that he talked about change [...]

TPM has the scoop…
An Edwards aide confirms to me that John Edwards met privately with Hillary on Thursday to discuss the possibility of making an endorsement, and will meet with Obama tomorrow, as first reported by Mark Halperin.
The Edwards aide gave me a bunch more detail, including this: “There’s a greater than 50% chance he [...]

Honestly, I thought it might come to this.
(NOTE: Apparently the link is down, but I contacted the webmaster and it should be back up shortly.)

Frankly, I’m a bit shocked. I thought for sure he’d stick around to try and be kingmaker, but stranger things have happened and since John didn’t come in 2nd in South Carolina, one can only imagine how demoralized his campaign has become.
From AP:
DENVER (AP) - Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending [...]

Politico has the numbers:
Clinton won the support of 49 percent of those polled by telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Jan. 23-27, a period that covered several days in advance of the South Carolina Democratic primary and one day afterward.
Obama came in second place, with 32 percent to John Edwards’ 14 percent.
The poll surveyed [...]

This podcast looks at (1) results of the South Carolina Democratic Primary; (2) a brief discussion about the media coverage of identity politics and (3) a look ahead to the Florida and February 5th primaries…
[Listen Online]
[Subscribe to 2008Central.net's Presidential Election Podcast]
Feel free to email us questions/suggestions for next week’s podcast (you can also email an [...]

Bad news for the son of South Carolina, but will he stay in it for the long haul so he can possibly become kingmaker at the convention?
So what happened tonight? Well, I think when the numbers get broken down even further they’ll reveal that a lot of people who were considering voting for Edwards switched [...]

Novak floats a theory that Obama is reaching out to Edwards, and I suppose if there’s a job John IS qualified for in an Obama presidency, it’s in AG’s office..
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama [...]