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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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% [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So the DNC yanked the delegates from these states because they moved their primaries up and now the Clintons are trying to get those delegates to count again? First, their statement… I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee. I believe [...]

Hey y’all (I’ve been in the south too long). In this video, I ask John Edwards about young voters. He definitely seemed a bit tired and grumpy when I met him, but he did take the time to answer the question. Thoughts?

Zogby shows him getting closer and closer to Hillary over the past few days, with Obama leading by a pretty solid 13%. From Zogby… Clinton won 25% support, up one point from the day before but now just four points ahead of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who continued to increase support and now [...]

The Edwards campaign latest justification for remaining in the race is that John Edwards is the ONLY electable Democratic candidate (as opposed to a similar but very different argument that Edwards is more electable than the other candidates). The campaign started making this argument after Iowa and has expanded on it ever since. Recently, Edwards [...]

With Obama so far ahead in the polls in the Palmetto State, this unspoken move makes sense. The question now is: should Barack leave South Carolina now and start criss-crossing the country before Super Tuesday? From Wash Post: Clinton has been focused on California, New York, New Jersey and Arkansas since her defeat in the [...]

Looks like all the candidates played fast and loose with the facts, and FactCheck.org is on top of it… Clinton falsely accused Obama of saying he “really liked the ideas of the Republicans” including private Social Security accounts and deficit spending. Not true. The entire 49-minute interview to which she refers contains no endorsement of [...]

This clip is the highlight, or lowlight, from tonight’s debate. Quote of the night? When Hillary said she didn’t criticize his comment about Ronald Reagan, Barack countered that her husband had. Hill then said she was at the debate, not Bill. That gave Barack the opportunity to land this gem, “Well, I can’t tell who [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. We will update this post on Donklephant periodically, but for the latest check out the live blog at 2008Central.net] 5:51: The debate starts at 8 pm tonight on CNN. It’s been a yin/yang sort of day, with the candidates making nice over Martin Luther King while Obama calls Bill Clinton a liar, [...]

Another close one, and Hillary looks like she’s going to able to pull it out with a strong 51% to Obama’s 45%. Edwards pulls in an embarrassing 4%. Here’s how the vote broke down across demographics: According to CBS News entrance polls, the economy was the issue most on the minds of Democratic caucus-goers today, [...]