Crossposted from Flopping Aces

So Edwards is quitting:

Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies, The Associated Press has learned.

The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two aides. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement.

And now we wonder where his supporters go to now? Michelle Malkin has a graph of the South Carolina exit polls:

Which means it comes down to Democrat white males. Where do they go? Michelle thinks Obama but I disagree. Those white males were usually the angry union types who wanted to stick it to big corporations and I do not see them moving to Obama.

But either way, Silky is gone….finally.

UPDATE:

Giuliani also quits White House race

SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) – Republican Rudy Giuliani abandoned his failing U.S. presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race to two main candidates on each side before next week’s nomination voting in more than 20 states.

Giuliani, the one-time front-runner who finished a distant third in Florida’s Republican primary on Tuesday, traveled to California to endorse Arizona Sen. John McCain in a Republican battle against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“Today I am officially announcing my withdrawal as a candidate for president of the United States,” Giuliani said at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley before a televised Republican presidential debate.

also:

Don’t Panic About Global Warming

Here is a very short concise rundown of why the “science” of man-made global warming is not settled from The Climate Skeptic:

A longer 9 minute version is here.