Obama’s Tactical Move of the Week
The John Edwards endorsement of Obama was perfectly timed to step all over the “Hillary clobbers Obama in West Virginia” story. The timing was brilliant. There is little chance this was an accident. Team Obama knew exactly what they were doing by holding this until Wednesday. They stemmed whatever momentum Clinton had from her 40 point win.
This is not just a nice tactic. The implications from West Virginia are startling. The fact that the Democratic nominee can only get one fourth (27%) of the vote in a Democratic primary this late in the game is very problematic. Nearly three-fourths of Democrats in West Virginia could not and did not vote for the ultimate nominee. The Edwards endorsement was designed to mute all of that. It also sends a signal to superdelegates. And Edwards will have an important role in a rural and blue collar, working-class state like Kentucky.
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