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Almost immediately after the polls closed last night, we heard that Rudy Giuliani was dropping out. He will announce that, and endorse McCain today.

On the Democrat side, there are now only two. In a bit of a shock, to me at least, John Edwards has dropped out. He will not immediately endorse a candidate.

I figured Edwards would have lasted at LEAST thru Super Tuesday. I guess not.

Posted by Jerry on 01.30.2008

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Adam (mail):

I can't believe he wouldn't stay in at least through Super Tuesday. He would definitely pick up some more delegates, and be in a better position to leverage the ones he's got. I just don't understand this.

1.30.2008 9:38am

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Adam (mail):

Edwards, that is.

1.30.2008 9:38am

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John (www):

I suspect his money is running out, or already has. Edwards is a bit of a cypher as a politician, but he's not stupid.

1.30.2008 9:42am

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Mark Adams, who's always correct, get used to it. (mail) (www):

Elizabeth hasn't been on the campaign trail for over two weeks. No public appearances since before Nevada.

1.30.2008 9:55am

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Mark Adams, who's always correct, get used to it. (mail) (www):

Actually, I should have seen it coming. I got two clues late Monday. That he was "rescheduling" an appearance in Fargo and going to a non-Tsunami Tuesday state and give a "major poverty speech" in New Orleans, where it all started 13 months ago.

That, coupled with Elizabeth's absence and questions about her health bubbling up to the point where Campaign Manager Bonior had to flat out say, "she's fine" yesterday ... all the clues were right in front of me.

So, I'm officially undecided. Convince me who to support.

1.30.2008 10:00am

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Mark Adams, who's always correct, get used to it. (mail) (www):

Oh, and John, you were wrong about the money. He had plenty. Matching funds to go through Tsunami Tuesday and beyond, and the campaign annouced last weekend that they made more in January than all of the last quarter of '07.

Money isn't the issue, at least not right now. He was going to be broke after Texas and Ohio, but not before March.

1.30.2008 10:02am

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Jerry K. :

It's a bummer for me. I always liked Edwards. If the ticket would have been flipped 4 years ago, I would have voted for him. I was hoping he would have pulled a rabbit out of his hat on Super Tuesday and win a bunch of delegates. It was not to be.

Barack or Hillary for the Democrats, then there is McCain and Romney for the Republicans. I have a feeling that big earred dude will be making an appearance some time soon. If for nothing else than to give Dana Carvey some material to resurrect his career.

1.30.2008 10:52am

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Mark Adams, who's always correct, get used to it. (mail) (www):

I saw something about Perot a couple of weeks ago, blasting

There it is, Newsweek, where he was blasting John McCain and going on about thinking Obama was a muslim.

Let's put it this way, if he weren't an addled old fool, I'd swear Perot was trying to Swift-boat McCain's POW legacy. It came off as him just being his wacky self. It was pretty mean.

1.30.2008 11:08am

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Jerry K. :

I don't think Perot will have any effect on the election cycle this go around. But with the field as weak as it is, he may try.

For all that I like about Hillary and Barack, I just don't think America is ready for something other than a white male POTUS. There are too many "ISTS" out there. You pick the prefix (Race or Sex).

McCain is too old. I like Romney's values. No wait, he changed them. Oh, he's back again. Yeah, he's good. OH crap. He's flipped again.

We need something to spice up this race. Maybe Hillary needs to send Kwame Kilpatrick a text message..

1.30.2008 12:14pm

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shep (mail):

"I don't think Perot will have any effect on the election cycle this go around."

Who?

1.30.2008 12:27pm

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double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):

I wonder if Rudy will mention 9/11 when he bows out.

1.30.2008 12:45pm

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Jerry K. :

exactly x 2

1.30.2008 1:03pm

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Ara Rubyan (www):

23/6 had a great headline: "Elderly man wins elderly vote in Florida; Rudy drops out of race to spend more time with 9/11"

1.30.2008 3:35pm

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Ara Rubyan (www):

I'm officially undecided. Convince me who to support.

Um, no, I'm afraid not. Maybe in a couple of days.

For now, just remember the good times!

1.30.2008 4:24pm

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double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):

23/6 had a great headline: "Elderly man wins elderly vote in Florida; Rudy drops out of race to spend more time with 9/11"

best headline I've seen is "Goodbye Rudy Tuesday".

1.30.2008 6:08pm