"Hubieramos ganado Iowa, y Clinton sería la nominada"

Lo dice Howard Wolfson, director de comunicaciones de la extinta campaña de la Senadora Hillary Clinton. Si los grandes medios no hubieran encubierto a John Edwards cuando en diciembre de 2007 el National Enquirer destapó la historia de su adulterio... Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination

(...) Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year, insists a top Clinton campaign aide, making a charge that could exacerbate previously existing tensions between the camps of Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.

"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABCNews.com.

(...) "Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people," Wolfson said the Clinton polls showed. "They were older, pro-union. Not all, but maybe two-thirds of them would have been for us and we would have barely beaten Obama."

Two months earlier, Edwards had vociferously, but falsely, denied a story in the National Enquirer about the alleged affair last October, and few in the mainstream media even reported the denial.

The lie "certainly had an impact on the election," Wolfson said. (...)