Elizabeth Edwards Says It'll Be Close

NEW YORK -- 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.

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."

Trusting in "all these things that would seem to say we can just sit back and eat chocolates between now and November" would be a mistake, said Edwards, seated on a floral couch in her North Carolina home for what interviewer and conference organizer Andrew Rasiej called a "live-vlog." Her husband, John Edwards, made a surprise cameo on the screen and joined her briefly on the couch toward the end of her interview.

"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."

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