Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies, The Associated Press has learned.
The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two aides. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
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 condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement.
And now we wonder where his supporters go to now? Michelle Malkin has a graph of the South Carolina exit polls:
Which means it comes down to Democrat white males. Where do they go? Michelle thinks Obama but I disagree. Those white males were usually the angry union types who wanted to stick it to big corporations and I do not see them moving to Obama.
But either way, Silky is gone….finally.
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