Edwards drops out
Posted by mofembot Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:47:00 GMT
The more I heard Edwards speak, the more I read his speeches and got to know his platform, the more I liked him. It had been my intention to vote for him by absentee ballot in this upcoming “Super Tuesday” election.
So in some ways I am not as disappointed as I might have been that circumstances conspired against my getting my absentee ballot on time. (A family emergency called me away to Madrid at the beginning of the week before my ballot arrived, and I did not get back with enough time to spare to ensure that it would get back to Massachusetts on time.)
Obviously I will vote for the Democratic nominee, whether Barack or Hillary (or at the last minute, Al? Al?)… And I suppose I am hopeful that what Paul Krugman wrote was true: that Edwards’ progressive platform has positively influenced the platforms of both Clinton and Obama. So perhaps the poor and the powerless (or, hey, the vast majority of us) will not be entirely forgotten after all.
But still, dang it all.