Symbolic, or what?

In an on-line article, the LA Times reports that John Edwards' bus tour through Iowa broke down only twelve hours into the event. "In darkness, the bus with the entire Edwards entourage pulled over at a service station and was abandoned."
He was thus 45 minutes late to a speaking event, where more than 200 people got pissed off waiting...
But he did beat Hillary, so it's not all bad.