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The Democratic Presidential contenders turned their attention to organized labor as the AFL-CIO hosted a candidates' debate in Chicago. No surprise, NBC was the only network to preview the confab--its moderator is Countdown anchor Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and NBC's sibling network is carrying the event. Chip Reid noted that the run-up to the debate had seen both Barack Obama and John Edwards blast frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton for accepting funds from inside-the-Beltway lobbyists. Rodham Clinton admitted as much: "Yes, they represent corporations that employ a lot of people." NBC's in-house political analyst Chuck Todd tipped Edwards as going on the offense against "not a friend of labor" Rodham Clinton. Reid reckoned that "perhaps no one has worked as hard for the union vote as John Edwards."
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