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Edwards Lie Cost Hillary the Nomination, Aide Says

...and hence the nomination

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 11, 2008 11:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – Hillary Clinton’s former communications director is convinced that had the media outed John Edwards last year, Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. “We would have won Iowa,” Howard Wolfson tells ABC. “Our voters and Edwards’ voters were the same people. They... Read full story »

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