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BOSTON (AP) - The 10,000-member New Hampshire Service Employees International Union is endorsing former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in the Democratic presidential primary, his campaign said Tuesday.The campaign planned to announce the support formally during a rally Wednesday in Concord, N.H.SEIU chapters in Iowa and 10 other states have already endorsed Edwards. Two others have endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. The national union has decided not to make an endorsement during this election, leaving it to each chapter.Unions felt burned after they went out on a limb early in the 2004 contest, only to watch as their anointed candidates lost the nomination to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has the most national union endorsements with six, while Edwards has four. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut has been endorsed by the International Brotherhood of Firefighters, and Obama has an endorsement from a New York City correction officers union.American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees plans to endorse within a month. The National Education Association and the Communications Workers of America will decide in December whether to endorse or to endorse more than one candidate. The United Auto Workers has yet to make its plans known.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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