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» WaPo: Younger Crowd Losing Appetite For Edwards (Anne E. Kornblut)

Pointless, but funny article here. Overall premise (based on a confessed "casual survey") is that a gaggle of '04 Edwards caucusers are now looking elsewhere for a candidate. As if no back-to-back candidate would be without such supporters. But this last example warrants a good laugh ...

Wendy Daniel, 31, a seventh-grade teacher in Des Moines who voted for Edwards in 2004, said she finds the former senator "just as interesting" as she did in the last race but has concerns about his wife's health.

"I just think he has a lot on his plate," Daniel said. "I feel sorry for him, because I think he would have been our next president" had his wife, Elizabeth, not had a recurrence of breast cancer, she said.

Now, Daniel said she is considering Obama, or maybe even former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the current Republican front-runner in national polls. "But if Hillary gets up there, I won't vote for her," she said emphatically. "I don't like her 'stand-by-your-man kind of girl who rides on her husband's coattails just to become president' thing. Maybe if she would have gotten a divorce and done everything for herself I would have thought about it."

I'm sure there's a splendid statement on today's culture that someone would view divorce as an overriding positive in evaluating candidates.