This has been a point of contention across the diaries and comments of late:

Edwards supporters are not Obama supporters.

Ahh, I think to myself.  Finally, a knowable answer to an important question!  Let's take a look at the New Hampshire exit polls, which, I think we can safely say, represent the views of an electoral body that feels relatively good about Hillary Clinton.

Here is the New York Times's account of Barack's performance at New Hampshire's 100 Club Dinner:

Spontaneous combustion! We’re here at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s big dinner and out of the masses of 3,000 people, who have been listening politely to Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson, comes a huge surge of people toward the stage for the next speaker — Barack Obama.

There's more . . .

Forget Rachel Paulose.  To my knowledge, she never used the United States Attorney's office as a blunt instrument in an attempt to imprison Democrats.  Another Bush-appointed card-carrying conservative United States Attorney took partisanship into his own hands -- and lost.  For at least the past year, Matthew Whitaker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, has waged a vendetta against Democratic Iowa State Senator Matt McCoy.  McCoy is Iowa's first openly gay state legislator.  I'll let you draw your own conclusions about whether Mr. Whitaker's prosecutorial zeal represented naked partisanship . . . or worse.

Waterboarding is torture, and today the New York Times has set out exactly why no Bush attorney general nominee will ever admit it:

“You would ask not just who carried [waterboarding] out, but who specifically approved it,” said Mr. Silliman, director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke. “Theoretically, [criminal liability] could go all the way up to the president of the United States; that’s why [Mukasey] will never say it’s torture,” Mr. Silliman said of Mr. Mukasey.

The capitulation in Congress is immensely frustrating, but, as others have said, the Democratic leadership's failure is no cause for surrender.  I've struggled to understand why the party is capituating; is it incompetence?  Whatever the case may be, this community has the opportunity to lead on this issue!