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Hashasheen

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Edwards never cheated on his wife, and didnt take the 400$ haircut that ruined his credibility as a champion of the poor. how would his campaign have gone without those albotrosses? would he have become a larger consideration for veep? would he have won the nomination?
 
Considering both of those issues only really became significant when Edwards was already pretty much a busted flush, IIRC, I can't see anything significant changing here.

He'd have probably been in higher consideration as a potential running mate, but Edwards seems to have been not precisely what Obama was looking for.
 
Very little would change.

First off, so many things were wrong with Edwards' 2008 campaign. For example, he did not spend a single dime on polling. That is insane. When you are the candidate, "polling" doesn't mean the cheap stuff you see in newspapers, telling you whether you're winning. "Polling" means detailed interviews, in order to find out why you're winning or losing, and how you could improve.

Then, after the campaign ended and the world found out about the affair, you have to ask yourself, what could Edwards have aspired to instead? His political ambitions are all aimed at the wrong places -- as Kay Hagan proved, a Democrat can win a Senate seat in North Carolina, and yet John Edwards has never said anything about trying to get another statewide office. And he's useless as a Cabinet official -- he may be famous, but he doesn't have the sort of experience running a bureaucracy or being a specialized policy expert that Obama has clearly made his #1 and #2 criteria for his Cabinet picks.
 
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