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Democratic Presidential Race Taking Shape?

By Jeff Justman

After splitting wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) are mounting increasingly aggressive campaigns against each other, as the Washington Post's Dan Balz notes. Far from being a two-way race, however, Balz also argues that former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) has a very important role to play, perhaps in siphoning votes from either Clinton or Obama, or in a potential decision to release his delegates to either candidate.

Edwards, however, says that he's "in to win," and some polls in soon-to-vote states support such a decision. What seems clear, then, is that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is wide-open. The next contest in which all three will be on the ballot is in Nevada, where residents will caucus January 19. Stay tuned for results and predictions of the outcome.

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Full post as published by The Law and Politics Blog on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).