Edwards to America: PSYCHE
When John Edwards announced today he was dropping out of the Democratic bid for presidency, media pundits 
everywhere wasted no time is predicting which of his former rivals he would decide to endorse. The real twist came late this evening, when he finally decided to endorse his candidate of choice–himself.
In fact, it seems Edward’s was leveraging his dropping out to score some free air time. Indeed, he had the right idea: his supposedly last speech garnered more attention than all of his rallies, fund raisers and previous speeches combined.
He voiced that very same opinion tonight, declaring: “Ha ha America, made you look”. He added “Gotcha!”.
A recent CNN poll put out minutes after his announcement showed that 56% of all democratic voters now knew his name–a 47% increase from the previous poll, which heavily sampled his close relatives.
His obscurity seemed to peak late last week, when he accidentally voted for Hillary Clinton, remarking that he “didn’t even recognize my name on the ballot”.
Edwards’ fund raising problems have also been alleviated; his campaign reports donations in excess of $5 million at the news he was dropping out. “Everyone was so enthusiastic to hear I was gone, they just wanted to keep throwing money at me” he commented.
What seemed an improbable shot for the White House now seems to be a clearly paved road for the Southerner. He hopes to use his positive momentum and free air time to catapult himself ahead of his rivals come Super Tuesday.
