John Edwards [Update: Not] To Suspend Campaign

When the Edwards campaign announced today's press conference last night, rumors began circulating that he would be suspending or terminating his candidacy in order to tend to his wife Elizabeth, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.  As reported at Politico, a campaign source confirms this regrettably to be the case.

"At a minimum he's going to suspend" the campaign, the source said. "Nobody knows precisely how serious her recurrence is. It’ll be another couple of days before there’s complete clarity."

"For him right now he has one priority which is her health and the security of the two young children," said the friend.

As for the campaign, "You don't shut this machine off completely, but everything will go on hold."

The press conference is set to begin in a few minutes.  Allah's got a post going and will undoubtedly be updating as details, reaction, and/or video become available.

Update:  The bad news: Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has indeed returned.  The good news: test results that came back only yesterday were apparently rosier than other recent results, so Edwards will not in fact suspend his campaign.  In the candidates words, "We have no intentions of cowering in the corner."  Politico issues a mea culpa, suggesting the single source inside the campaign was apprised only of the less recent tests and the apparent decision (now reversed) that had previously been made to suspend the campaign based on that grimmer (happily inaccurate) prognosis.