Democrat John Edwards, the party's vice presidential candidate in 2004, has toppled off the Times' page [1]of potential candidates for vice president.
The page by political reporters Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny (critiqued [2]by Times Watch [2]) was originally posted aroundJuly 7 and has been updated as events have warranted - for instance, a profile of Sen. Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, was removed after he publicly withdrew his name from consideration for a vice president slot.
So what could have been the reasoning behind removing John Edwards' name from a list of Obama's potential Veeps? Edwards hasn't said anything about not wanting to serve - in fact, Edwards for some reason [3]has been rather scarce in public of late.
Could this be a detection of what Mickey Kaus calls "dark matter [4]" - some circumstance unacknowledged by the mainstream media yet exerting an invisible pull on press coverage?