By Scott Galindez
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
The race for the Democratic Party nomination for president has increasingly become a three-way race. The problem for John Edwards is he is no longer the third person in the race, Bill Clinton is.
To be fair, Edwards was the big winner in Monday night’s debate in South Carolina, but most observers think it is too late to save his campaign.
When I talked to Latino voters in Nevada who supported Hillary, they all talked about Bill Clinton’s record, not Hillary’s. Except for the exchange in Monday night’s debate, the strongest attacks against Obama have come from the former president, not his opponent.
In Nevada, Hillary was able to deny any connection to a lawsuit to prevent shift workers from voting on the strip, while Bill blew up at a reporter while defending the lawsuit. It was Bill that tried to claim Obama has not opposed the war from the beginning, based on his votes for funding, votes he has in common with Hillary, who now claims to oppose the war despite the same votes. It was Bill that claimed that Obama said he agreed with the ideas of Ronald Reagan when he clearly didn’t.