Jyllands Posten - Mellemøsten Demokraten John Edwards trækker sig ud kampen om at blive USA's næste præsident. Det meddelte han i aften ved et pressemøde i New Orleans. Dermed bliver det et opgør mellem Hillary ...

Berlingske Tidende - Demokraten John Edwards trækker sig formelt fra kampen om at blive USA's næste præsident. Det meddelte han onsdag. Onsdag den 30. januar 2008, 20:03 Demokraten John Edwards trækker sig ud kampen ...

dr.dk - Den demokratiske præsidentkandidat John Edwards trækker sig fra kampen om Det Hvide Hus, erfarer nyhedsbureauet AP. Edwards har under hele valgkampen ligget efter de to favoritter Barack Obama og ...

BT Online - Demokraten John Edwards trækker sig fra kampen om at blive USA's næste præsident, erfarer nyhedsbureauet AP. - nyheder

Berlingske Tidende - Onsdag den 30. januar 2008, 15:16 Demokraten John Edwards agter at trække sig i kampen om at blive USA's næste præsident, erfarer nyhedsbureauet Associated Press (AP). Beslutningen kommer efter at ...

dr.dk - Den demokratiske præsidentkandidat John Edwards trækker sig fra kampen om Det Hvide Hus, erfarer nyhedsbureauet AP.

MSN Nyheder - Den demokratiske præsidentkandidat John Edwards har trukket sig fra den igangværende præsidentvalgkamp i USA. ... Den demokratiske præsidentkandidat John Edwards har trukket sig fra den ...

Børsen Online - Kom og hør med når Tor Nørretranders lægger vejen forbi Børsen executive club, og giver os nogle kloge og tankevækkende ord med på vejen. Demokraten John Edwards agter at trække sig i kampen ...

Berlingske Tidende - Hillary Clinton og Barack Obama er alene tilbage i kampen om at blive demokraternes præsidentkandidat. Den tredje kandidat John Edwards opgiver. John Edwards melding kom onsdag, efter han måtte ...

Berlingske Tidende - Hillary Clinton og Barack Obama er alene tilbage i kampen om at blive demokraternes præsidentkandidat. Den tredje kandidat John Edwards opgiver. - Valg i USA

: ABC News' Raelyn Johnson and Ed O'Keefe Report: Former senator John Edwards D-N.C. will drop out of the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday. "It just became clear it wasn't going to happen " as senior Edwards advisor tells ABC News. MSNBC reports Edwards will make the announcement at 1 PM (Eastern time) in New Orleans where he started the campaign in December of 2006.

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 Wednesday ending [...]

John Edwards to drop out:DENVER Democrat John Edwards will exit 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 voter's sympathies but never...

Last Wednesday I gave a lecture on the law of assault and battery. As an example of simple battery I used my old middle school friend Darrin`s violent reaction to being called an `English fag` by our classmate James. Fortunately no one was silly enough to believe that my simple battery example was meant to endorse the widespread use of the term `fag` - in fact I prefer the term `queer` and only use it when talking about John Edwards. (Sorry Ann I couldn`t resist). I also consider it fortunate that I don`t teach at Brandeis University. If I did I might already have had someone placed in my classroom to monitor my use of the term `fag.` If you think I`m joking consider the case of political science professor Donald Hindley. Professor Hindley did a good thing the other day in his Latin American Politics course. He criticized the use of the term `wetbacks` as an inappropriate racial slur against Mexican immigrants. Of course in the process he actually uttered the term `wetback.` As a result some students were offended - actually in my view they claimed to be offended in order to get attention. And the `offended` students certainly did get attention. As a result of the students` feigned offense at the criticism of the term `wetbacks ` Professor Hindley has now been found guilty of `harassment` by administrators at Brandeis University. It is certainly funny that a university named after a Supreme Court Justice (and staunch supporter of free expression) should be guilty of such heavy-handed tactics which are certain to chill the free expression of ideas. But make no mistake about it; what has happened to Professor Hindley is not funny in a `ha-ha` sense. It is funny in a `strange` sense. Although he has never been given a written explanation of the charges against him he has been found guilty of `harassment` and has had a `monitor` placed in his class to make sure he does not `offend` again. All this is punishment for a professor who has been teaching for five decades and has never before had a student complaint. Fortunately the ACLU - like the blind squirrel that occasionally finds a nut - has taken a break from causes like suppressing individual prayer in order to weigh in on this truly important case. And they have proffered a correct though incomplete analysis of the Hindley case. According to the Massachusetts ACLU universities must be vigilant in protecting their students from harassment but in this case no such harassment occurred. In fact according to the correct logic of the ACLU it is possible for the over-policing of harassment to have deleterious effects on academic freedom and free speech generally. In the Brandeis case free expression was harmed but there was no real harm to racial minorities. What the ACLU missed in their response was that minorities may in fact have been hurt by the incident at Brandeis. A decent man has just been punished for standing up against racism and is therefore less likely to do it again in the future. And those who are following the case are learning vicariously that defending minorities is often a thankless and risky undertaking. The ultimate irony of the Hindley case is that none of the persons claiming to be offended by the term `wetback` were even eligible to be offended. The term `wetback` - as I recall from my upbringing in Texas - is reserved exclusively for illegal aliens. By claiming to be harassed by the term `wetback ` one must simultaneously admit to one`s status as an illegal alien. And certainly such an admission would create greater problems (e.g. deportation) for the `offended` than simply being offended. It is hard to believe that one could entertain seriously the notion that there is some constitutional right to be `un-offended ` which trumps the First Amendment. It is even harder to imagine that illegal aliens have such a right over and above the rights of citizens who are in this country lawfully. But just wait a few years and this will all seem mundane to the average American. Lately I`ve been getting so tired of political correctness that I`ve even considered leaving the country. Maybe I`ll make my escape by swimming south across the Rio Grande. And if my shirt doesn`t dry quickly I`ll just cover my ears and hope for the best.

He says he doesn't like them and he says he doesn't need them. In fact Barack Obama regularly criticizes the operations and the influence of 527s scolding John Edwards and Hillary Clinton for their attraction to the outside political groups. But as the New York Times points out Obama has become attractive to them as well and benefits significantly from their assistance: After months of denouncing the influence of special-interest money in politics Senator Barack Obama is nonetheless entering a critical phase of the presidential campaign benefiting from millions of dollars being spent outside campaign finance rules. Mr. Obama has repudiated a California group Vote Hope that is working on his behalf. But it has pressed on and along with a sister organization called PowerPac.org is planning to spend up to $4 million promoting him in California and conducting voter registration drives aimed at blacks in 11 Southern states. The...

according to the Associated Press.

Polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern. It`s a make-or-break race for various people mostly Rudy Giuliani. Can John Edwards lose again? The best political team on the Internet is very excited about these things ... except we`re not because it doesn`t actually matter. Florida`s precious 210 Democratic delegates were taken away by Howard Dean and the mean mean DNC. Half of the Florida GOP` s 114 delegates were taken away by the angry old Republican National Committee. Why? Because nobody in Florida can follow any simple rules that`s why. In other words join us for nonstop liveblogging action at 8 p.m. when will immediately call the election for Katherine Harris. See you then! [ ]

Hillary Clinton has won zero delegates but 48% of the precincts have been counted up and guess who`s president again? Sorry Obama. What does it mean? `Obama`s got a big problem ` says the guy who looks like Dick Cheney on CNN. Black people voted 70% for Obama. Black Democrats at least. Hillary`s got a big big 49% right now or 271 883 votes at 8:06 p.m. Mike Gravel now has 2% of Zero Delegates. Wolf Blitzer trimmed his neck fuzz a little too closely so you can see some acne pits on his neck. Or maybe they are ... ticks? Hillary is about to speak! She is going to announce the bombing of Barack Obama`s Florida headquarters. This was the longest intro in the history of intros .... and it`s still not an introduction of Hillary who just stands there grinning like a Murderer. We`ve switched to Fox News and also MSNBC. Both are `better` than CNN. Brit Hume: `Well huh huh it is a little ... weird.` He thinks it is weird that Hillary Clinton is accepting this 49% victory. Right now Obama is at 29% and `Soil of the South` John Edwards is at 15%. Bill Kristol thinks Al Gore is going to endorse Obama. Ah Hillary is finally yelling at us! Hooray! `I could not come here to ask in person for your votes but I am here to thank you. For your votes. TODAY !` Did you know Senator Bill Nelson is an Astronaut? He wears diapers and kills by night. Also Hillary `believes` in a bunch of stuff. You know like rewarding hard work and making sure our kids could learn and the health care could be for you and she is so angry that all her Wall Street billionaire friends don`t pay enough taxes.

There's a photo making the rounds. I won't post it but most of you have probably seen it: Senators Hillary Clinton Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama. The trivia-obsessed corporate media and various political partisans are trying to spin it into yet another stupid controversy. That's what they do. And as is so often the case they're missing the real story: on the day Senator Kennedy endorsed Senator Obama Senator Clinton reached out to shake Senator Kennedy's hand. Classy move.

W ith 24% of the vote counted as of 1708 PST it looks like a reversal of South Carolina on the Democratic side in today’s Florida primary. Hillary Clinton has already been called as the winner with 48% of the vote currently followed by Barack Obama with 29%. John Edwards is trailing with his usual 14%. Not that it matters. Since Florida’s delegates are persona non grata at the DNC this year the race is effectively a tie with both Clinton and Obama grabbing 0 delegates apiece. On the Republican side it’s too close to call the leader. Romney and McCain are battling for the lead each of them with about 1/3 of the vote. Guiliani is in a distant third with 15%. His rope-a-dope strategy waiting for a late strike in Florida to leap into the front-runner position is obviously a bust. Interestingly Hillary Clinton won by 20% among voters who voted early or who made up their mind more than two weeks ago. Among voters who decided within the last two weeks Obama polled a slight majority. That seems to indicate that in the last two weeks Obama has gained momentum. It’ll be fascinating to see if he can carry it through to next Tuesday. If the defections from the Clinton camp of establishment democrats like Ted Kennedy continues he just might. 1748: Hillary Clinton just this moment in Florida pledged to do everything she can to seat the Florida delegates at the Democratic Convention. This despite her signed pledge five months ago that she would do no such thing. I concur with of the editors of the Manchester Union-Leader : COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and is campaigning in Florida. Which proves again that Hillary Clinton is a liar. Clinton kept her name on the Michigan ballot when others removed theirs she campaigned this past weekend in Florida and she is pushing to seat Michigan and Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention. The party stripped those states of delegates as punishment for moving up their primary dates. "I will try to persuade my delegates to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida " Clinton said last week after the New Hampshire primaries and Iowa caucuses were safely over. Clinton coldly and knowingly lied to New Hampshire and Iowa. Of course why this should come as a surprise to anyone is beyond me. The Clintons have long been a couple for whom the truth is...malleable. 1754: The GOP race is still too close to call but it seems to be becoming less so. McCain leads Romney 35% to 32% with 46% of precincts counted. 1757: It’s fitting to see that Hillary Clinton is now picking up the endorsement of Congressman Alcee Hastings. That should lock up the key "former Federal judges who were impeached and removed from office for corruption" demographic. 1813: It’s McCain with 35% of the vote. He’s followed by Romney with 31% then Giuliani with 15%.