The entrance polls showed that Obama got the majority of the "liberal" vote and Edwards the majority of the "conservative" vote. This probably has Edwards and his people scratching their heads and going "what the hell?" Edwards did everything humanly possible to come across as the most liberal candidate, except write "I'm the most liberal!" in big letters on his forehead. Edwards also made a hard push for the young vote. Liberal voters went solidly for Obama. Young voters went overwhelmingly for Obama. Edwards got the conservative, white, male vote. Basically the same vote he got four years ago when the young and liberals went for Dean. What can you do?

Edwards needed a push out of Iowa b/c unlike Obama and Hillary he does not have a lot of money and he took matching funds. He has big problems moneywise now as people aren't going to be falling all over themselves to contribute to him now.