Edwards Not Confident

Elizabeth Edwards doesn't have much confidence in the power of Barack.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic presidential candidate and vice presidential nominee John Edwards, predicted that November's contest between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain would be close.

She's right, of course. The odds of Barack surviving his inexperience and sleazy friends is not very good, no matter how much money he spends.

Interviewed by Skype video before an audience at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 conference in the Time Warner Center here after weather problems prevented her from flying to N.Y. to speak at the annual gathering, Edwards predicted, "We are going to need to fight for every vote. This is going to be a close election."

Matthew Dowd, a a political guy on ABC News and the chief political strategist for Bush/Cheney in 2004 made an interesting point on This Week Sunday regarding Barack and money. He said its tough to spend $84 million dollars between the convention and the general election, and he's not sure that you can use more than that effectively. Maybe that's why Elizabeth isn't feeling cocky.

"I said I would work as hard as I could to make sure he is the next president," said Elizabeth Edwards of Obama. Electing him president "is enormously important," she said, "but I don't think it is by any means assured."