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The release of Elizabeth Edwards’ memoir next month has begun another round of “what ifs” from former advisors to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The first part of a lengthy study comparing coverage of presidential hopefuls in two newspapers — one in Iowa and one in New Hampshire — is complete, and the statistics it unearthed should give female journalists pause.

One of the top legislators this nation has seen was the late Speaker of the U.S. House Sam Rayburn of Texas, a man who served in that position for 17 years during World War II and after. He was a bachelor who could be found smoking, drinking moderately and reading Westerns when he wasn’t shepherding through legislation or advising presidents. But he was always on the clock.

“I think the context and the circumstances and the timing of it and the attitude that he projected during the presidential race, I think, creates some very serious problems for him in terms of being able to redeem himself,” said the former Iowa Governor and presidential candidate.

A top aide to Hillary Clinton says if revelations about John Edwards’ extramarital affair had come out before the Iowa caucuses, Clinton would be the presumptive nominee today.
That’s impossible to definitively answer, of course. But a caucus night survey indicates that most Edwards caucus goers had a second choice other than Clinton, and his absence [...]

During a Saturday morning interview in the fall of 2003 — just months before John Edwards finished a strong second in the 2004 Iowa caucuses — I interviewed Elizabeth Edwards at Inspired By Coffee on Highway 30 in Carroll.
As she asks the press and public for distance and decency in the wake of revelations about [...]

A fixture on the Iowa political scene for much of 2007, Elizabeth Edwards has blogged a response to the stories emerging about her husband, former Sen. John Edwards.  Here’s how it starts:
Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some – most recently – caused by [...]

David Redlawsk, University of Iowa political science professor and John Edwards national delegate, joined today’s stampede and has switched his support to Barack Obama, whom the Associated Press is now calling the presumptive Democratic nominee.

In politics life is like the Holiday Inn around 11 a.m.

The sheets are changed to make way for new bedfellows, convenient partners in the day’s expediencies. The narrative we are getting now, the looped conventional wisdom, is that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards’ endorsement of likely Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is this: The folksy [...]

“I would anticipate that this will help Obama’s case with what has been his weakest area lately — working-class white voters,” Dave Redlawsk told Iowa Independent when he learned of John Edwards’ anticipated endorsement of Barack Obama. Redlawsk is both a University of Iowa political science professor and a national delegate for Edwards.

Several sources reported [...]