Wolfson: Edwards coverup cost HRC the nom

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 6:11 AM PDT

2008/08/11 · 06:11

Howard Wolfson thinks HRC was cheated.

"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABC News.com.

ABC points out that this isn't helping unity:

Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year, insists a top Clinton campaign aide, making a charge that could exacerbate previously existing tensions between the camps of Clinton and Sen. Barack
Obama.

More at abcnews.com: http://abcnews.go.com/...

To be fair, here's the reasoning he gave. He seems to think it would've made a difference mostly in Iowa, where she came third in total votes, giving her edge over Obama if Edwards had come clean.

"Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," Wolfson said the Clinton polls showed. "They were older, pro-union. Not all, but maybe two-thirds of them would have been for us and we would have barely beaten Obama."

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