Summary
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has forfeited his Iowa lead to Hillary Clinton, according to the latest compilation of polls by RealClearPolitics. In New Hampshire, Mr. Edwards trails her by more than 20 points. Nationally, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, he's treading water at 10 percent, trailing Mrs. Clinton by 32 points. The unraveling of Mr. Edwards' campaign probably explains his increasingly hyperbolic forays into crank populism. How else to explain his imbecilic rant on CNN following Rupert Murdoch's bid to purchase the Wall Street Journal: "I don't want to see Rupert Murdoch - or anybody else for that matter - owning every newspaper in America," Mr. Edwards blathered.
Meanwhile, bordering on paranoia, the Edwards campaign now seems convinced that it is the target of a right-wing-media witch hunt. The press office has been stonewalling legitimate journalistic inquiries about the eye-popping $800,000 that HarperCollins, a subsidiary of Mr. Murdoch's News Corp., gave to Mr. Edwards in two separate advances of $500,000 and $300,000 in 2005 for a third-rate coffee-table book called "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives." No other publisher would touch it. As expected, the book had lousy sales.See the full content of this document
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An Ingrate and a Hypocrite
Mr. Edwards has demanded that all other Democratic presidential candidates return cont...
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