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Both Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama have been seeking the backing of John Edwards, whose home state of North Carolina holds its primary May 6, with 115 delegates at stake.
Elizabeth Edwards told ABC's Good Morning America that both Clinton and Obama "have called John and wanted to talk to him, and we continue to talk to them about what's going on.
"But we think that what we have to offer them is not so much an endorsement as a perspective on what we found as we crossed the country on what people think are important issues and the solutions that seemed most realistic."
Elizabeth Edwards, who discovered last year that the cancer she thought she had beaten had returned, said she preferred Clinton's health-care plan, which would require everyone to have health insurance and would offer assistance to those who could not afford to buy coverage.
Obama's plan would require that all parents have health insurance for their children but doesn't mandate that all adults buy coverage.
"I think they both have the same goals," Elizabeth Edwards said. "I just have more confidence in Sen. Clinton's policy than Sen. Obama's on this particular issue." - AP
Voter registrations have also been booming overall across age, race, gender and party affiliation, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Although the traditional registration period closes tomorrow, the numbers may continue to climb if voters take advantage of North Carolina's new same-day registration law.
More than 45,000 black North Carolinians signed up to vote in the first three months of 2008, compared with just over 11,000 in the first quarter of 2004. Voter registration among whites more than doubled, with 106,000 new registrations between Jan. 1 and March 31, compared with 47,000 four years ago.
Blacks have historically accounted for about one-third of voters in North Carolina's Democratic primary. Obama has won a string of Southern primaries and caucuses in states with a large share of black voters. - AP
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