Reply #43: I heard about this yesterday morning.

[MADem]

You have to realize that most of those emails come from staffers. They aren't the candidate speaking to supporters, and it's just a tactic to make supporters feel "close" to the candidate. The candidate may say to a staffer like Trippi or a head writer "Send something out on the wire that says I think suchnsuch or that I'm going to do so-and-so." But it's not their words. Half the time they don't even know what went out, especially if it's boiler-plate from the stump speech.

Trippi was probably too busy looking to jump to one ship or another to bother telling someone to gin one up.

For all we know, Mrs. E got some horrible news and it's a shorter time to worse news than they previously thought. I can't blame JE for putting the wife first. I'd do the same if I were in his shoes. He realized he wasn't bringing it, so it does make sense to step aside...not TO LET HISTORY take its course, but AND let history take its course. Because that will happen, no matter what the end result is.