Good analysis.

I remember right before he dropped out how all the Obama supporters were taking it for granted that Edwards followed had to naturally join Obama because you know...they're both anti-Clinton!

But that's a simplistic and childish way to look at things. Many, if not most of Edwards supporters got behind him based on his fighting spirit and on the incredibly detailed way he talked about issues. Obama's message of unity and transcendence at the expense of issues is not a recipe for attracting a group of voters who were hungry for a message of taking the fight to the GOP and in truly changing America not on a message of abstract national unity, but changing American policies in a progressive direction.

Out of the two standing, I can see why many of them went with the candidate promising to fight and offering the more progressive agenda, despite her many faults, which are many.