Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit
Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.
The former first lady raced into a long West Virginia-to-the-West Coast campaign day, declaring she would move forward with her presidential effort and insisting anew that she, not Barack Obama, would be the stronger Democratic candidate to face Republican John McCain in November.
But her fresh comments about race dogged her as she pressed forward with her struggling candidacy.
In an interview with USA Today published Thursday, Clinton said, "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on." She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Obama's campaign did not respond to the comments, which generated buzz in the liberal blogosphere.
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Posted By: frjiles1 @ 05/10/2008 5:48:06 PM
Comment: The elders in the party made it clear that the democrats are about one and that one is Obama! Wouldn't you have issues with the democratic party if they treated Obama the same way they have treated Clinton?
Posted By: frjiles1 @ 05/10/2008 5:45:28 PM
Comment: I think what this he/she is trying to say is that the Democratic Party threw Clinton under the bus. Had the Democrats treated Obama the way they have treated Clinton, I doubt you and all of the other OBama supporters would have the same feelings that you have now!
THe party should have made the utmost effort to ensure that they treated BOTH candidates fairly being that they didn't they will deal with the consequences!
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Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 05/10/2008 3:27:41 PM
Comment: Florida and Michigan will send a not so suttle message to the DNC.