Anatomy of an Endorsement

[illinoisprogressive]

hey, Edwards people, you guys know I like him and back you guys up. I just thought this would be an interesting story. Seems there was a tie in the voting that went eventually to Edwards. Amazing how close things can be in these things.
I totally congratulate you guys and John Edwards for winning. But, I thought it was kind of cool because it shows how close things are with Obama and Edwards.
Good luck to your guy and again, congrats to the winner! good performance last night!



If Rodney Woodill hadn’t received a call from his wife Tuesday night, asking him to come home because his two-week old baby was sick, Edwards might have never won the endorsement of New Hampshire Service Employees Association, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Woodill, who represents 900 county and municipal employees within the state, was on his way to Concord, N.H., to participate in the second Executive Board Meeting within a week to choose a candidate for the state’s union to endorse, but turned back home after his wife called. The board voted without him, split 8-8 between Obama and Edwards. Local 1984’s president Gary Smith cast the tie-breaking vote, handing the endorsement of 10,000-member union to Edwards.

“If I had gone straight to the meeting, there wouldn’t have been an endorsement for John Edwards last night,” Woodill said in an interview today.

The tight vote was indicative of a union leadership that was split between the two candidates and a process fraught with internal politics reflective of a soap opera, as it was a sober consideration of which Democratic nominee would best reflect the union’s interests.

for the rest of the story:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/31/441468.aspx

[billyoc]

1. It's difficult to describe the WARS we fight during primary season

to come up with an endorsement. This time was worse than usual, there will be hard feelings for a long time.