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Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain might not burn up the campaign trail around Western New York this election year, but the University at Buffalo may have scheduled the next best thing. GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards will debate the issues of the presidential campaign Sept. 26 as part of the university’s Distinguished Speakers Series, The Buffalo News has learned. More

MADRID, Spain (AP) — John Edwards has ruled out being Barack Obama’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to interviews carried by two leading Spanish newspapers on Friday. “I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won’t do it again,” Edwards was quoted by El Mundo as saying. El Pais, the country’s other leading daily, carried similar comments.

Edwards, who ran for vice president under Sen. John Kerry four years ago and was a presidential candidate in this year’s Democratic primaries, had been named as a possible running mate for Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Calls by The Associated Press to several Edwards aides went unanswered and independent confirmation of Friday’s reports was not immediately possible. More

By Steven Greenhouse
New York Times
Senator Barack Obama’s efforts to woo working-class voters received a sizable boost today, when he received the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America.

The union, one of the strongest in West Virginia, had originally endorsed former Senator John Edwards, but remained undecided between Senator Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the weeks before the May 13 primary in West Virginia.

But officials in the mine workers union, which represents 105,000 active and retired members, said it was time to endorse Mr. Obama because it seemed clear that he would clinch the Democratic nomination. Read more

John Edwards hints he’ll endorse Obama
Edwards said whoever got his vote would get his endorsement.