He was a longshot anyway.
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John Edwards will participate on an online forum today at 2 Eastern and 11 Pacific.
Barack Obama, of course, will be in Reno today at a town hall meeting.
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State labor leaders in Oklahoma endorsed John Edwards for president.
And another endorsement in Massachusetts.
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Republican-leaning David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register throws in a few snotty remarks about John Edwards but admits it's way too early to write him off:
But watching him work in the sweaty auditorium of a Waukee elementary school Tuesday night, one gets a different feeling: Iowa Democrats may still give this guy a new lease on political life.
Why? John Edwards is tenacious and still in the hunt for first place. While the latest Iowa Poll shows Clinton at 29 percent, Edwards slipping to 23 percent and Obama at 22 percent, it's also important to remember that both Clinton and Obama have dropped millions on television commercials in the state. Edwards has yet to make his big media buy.
He's also getting his share of union endorsements, although those don't produce the results they once did.
He spends more time in Iowa than his rivals. (His wife jokes that if someone asked the couple for directions in Iowa, they could provide them.)
While Obama and Clinton have only recently discovered the fact that 49 percent of Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers live in rural and small-town Iowa, Edwards has been mining those tiny lodes for years.
Edwards isn't hurting for money in this campaign season, not if he's as tight with a buck as he's been in the past.
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