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Clinton Courts Women in Philly

September 05, 2007 6:35 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., continued to aggressively campaign for women voters Wednesday at events in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the Senator participated in one of her campaign's Club 44 "Women Win With Hillary" events -- low-dollar fundraising events geared toward women.

Women paid $100 to attend an event at the Sheraton Philadelphia Center City Hotel, where Clinton told a largely female crowd: "cowboy diplomacy is over," receiving a standing ovation.

Clinton laughed when students from Moore College, a women's liberal arts school, presented her with a t-shirt that read: "Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman."

Clinton has been courting the women vote since she entered this race starting with 200 women supporting her in January. The campaign tells ABC News that her support among women has grown to "tens of thousands of women."

Women supporters receive a 'HillGram' every Monday, updating them with taking points intended for women to share with friends and colleagues, Ann Lewis, Clinton's senior adviser told ABC News.

The campaign also started various outreach programs including Nurses for Hillary, Businesswomen and Lawyers for Hillary. They recently courted young women by  kicking off a 'Use Your Vote Make History' email campaign on women's equality day August 26th.

Clinton leads her closest Democratic rival -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., -- by 15 or 16 percentage points in four recent ABC News/Washington Post polls. Clinton garnered 49 percent support among likely women Democratic voters, while Obama received 33 percent, and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., had 7 percent, according to a July ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Elizabeth Edwards intends to change those numbers, saying recently that "John Edwards has a better record on Women's issues than Hillary." Former President Bill Clinton responded on Good Morning America last month, saying "I don't think (Hillary) is trying to be a man."

Hillary Clinton has surrounded herself with many of the women who were with her in 1992 and part of her 'Hillaryland' White House staff.  Huma Abedin, Clinton's traveling chief of staff., is commonly described as her secret weapon.

The Clinton campaign is also trying to turn attacks on the Senator into a fundraising opportunity. When the Washington Post's Robin Givhan, wrote a column about Clinton's cleavage, the campaign sent an email to supporters, asking them to donate to her campaign.

Lewis distributed an email calling the Givhan article "grossly inappropriate" and "insulting." Lewis also included a link where enraged readers could contribute to the campaign "to take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."

Clinton has said that she is the best candidate to bring about change and experience to the White House. The campaign has highlighted the potential of Clinton being the first female president. Obama is also arguing he is the candidate for change. The campaign has been consistently trying to own the change slogan and not cede any of that ground to Obama.   

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