The Politico reports John Edwards' position on driver's licenses for illegal aliens is as messy as Hillary Rodham Clinton's.

Edwards' campaign told the paper this: "He supports licenses as part of a path to citizenship. He doesn't support the Spitzer plan because it doesn't include a path to citizenship."

As immigration advocates point out in the story, that simply doesn't make sense. If they are on a path to citizenship they have legal status, and can obtain a driver's license anyway.

So the proper way to read Edwards' statement is that he opposes driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

Given that, here's how the top Democratic candidates stack up on the issue: