Obama Receives Endorsement from John Edwards
May 14, 2008By: Lynn
Good news for Barack Obama. John Edwards has finally endorsed him. Most had guessed that he would and he’s awfully late but better late than never.
Democrat John Edwards has given his long-awaited endorsement to Barack Obama.
It’s a major boost from a former presidential rival as Obama tries to shrug off Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is determined to press ahead.
Edwards was to appear with Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., as Obama campaigns in a critical general election battleground.
The endorsement comes the day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than 2-to-1 in West Virginia. The loss highlighted Obama’s work to win over the “Hillary Democrats” - white, working-class voters who also supported Edwards in large numbers before he exited the race.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Had he made it yesterday or the day before perhaps Obama would have gotten his votes in West Virginia.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
He was biding his time and waiting to see who would emerge as the frontrunner. I’m assuming he was playing the political game. He didn’t want to endorse too soon in case whomever he supported lost and then he would be left trying to mend fences with the other candidate that he initially snubbed.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Yep Diva, strategy was the name of the game.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:31 am
This clearly was planned weeks in advance—choreographed. Barack knew he would lose West Virginia by a large margin.
In my opinion it was nothing short of genius to plan to take people’s minds off him losing W.V. by planning this huge endorsement.
Smart move!