Edwards Lie Cost Clinton Nomination — Political Wire.

John Edwards affair and the way he chose to handle it….by lies and a cover-up… may be a tragedy for the Edwards family. But they are also a tragedy for the 18 million voters who supported her.

As reported in this piece: 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 Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, ABC News reports.

Said Wolfson: “I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee.”