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Clinton: West Virginia 'A Test for Obama'
May 08, 2008 1:25 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: A determined Hillary Clinton returned to West Virginia Thursday pledging once again that she's not ending her campaign and calling the Mountain State a 'test' for both her and her Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
"I think West Virginia is a test. It's a test for me, it's a test for Senator Obama," Clinton said, "Because for too long we have let places like West Virginia slip out of the Democratic column. It is a fact that no president, Democratic president, has ever won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia."
Clinton made reference to her interview with USA Today where she said "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
In her speech today, Clinton left out the part about white voters supporting her (remarks which have been generating buzz) to say "I'm winning Catholic voters and Hispanic voters and blue collar workers and seniors -- the kind of people senator McCain will be fighting for in the general election. Some call you swing voters but I call you Americans."
Clinton then stressed the importance of swing states, stressing the importance of the electoral math for the general election. "Now the delegate math may be complicated but the electoral math is easy. We need 270 electoral votes to win in November, that's what we have to have and Senator McCain is the frontrunner has served on the senate armed services committee he is a formidable opponent."
Clinton insisted on primary voting taking place in West Virginia, "Some in Washington wanted us to end our campaign – and then we won in New Hampshire. Then we had huge victories on Super Tuesday and then we won Ohio and Texas and Pennsylvania and I was never supposed to win Indiana. Well I want to be the president of all fifty states.”
Clinton continued "There are some folks who say we need to end this before we got to West Virginia – I said I don’t think so. I think we ought to keep this going to the people of West Virginia's voices are heard."
Clinton then set the bar for her campaign in this state where she is ahead. "I know that according to the polls -- and you know I take that with a grain of salt -- I'm dong well here but I want to do really well."
May 8, 2008 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (58)
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I hope she stays in forever. She is just way too funny.
Posted by: MohairSam | May 8, 2008 2:13:32 PM
Why can't Obama just beat her outright without the aid of supers, and without the exclusion of two entire states? And you think this mirage can beat McCain???
He is vapor held up by the media.
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 2:13:47 PM
Does Hillary mean since I am white I must not be a hard-working American because I support Obama? She didn't say Obama just was have a hard time with white voters, she said he was having a hard time with hard-working Americans.
Posted by: The Unshrub | May 8, 2008 2:15:38 PM
To S.B. - Because only Obama and his supporters like Donna Brazile are allowed to pull the racist c--p that they've been using against Hillary. So Obama should be able to make up 20 points or so in WV and Kentucky by campaigning hard, Wright? When Hillary loses NC by 14 points, she loses BIG! When Obama loses WV, it will be "it was expected." The voters in WV are not part of the "new democratic party" so the DNC and Obama don't care what they do next Tuesday.
Posted by: calli | May 8, 2008 2:15:54 PM
you know ruthie its not a empty promise it just a fact that a lot of us wont vote for someone who has too many marxist associates for comfort that have non mainstream anti american views.my mother always said if you lie down with dogs you will come up with fleas or another way you ARE judged by the company you keep.this country does not need another empty suit as potus the last one has done enough harm.
Posted by: don tufts | May 8, 2008 2:16:00 PM
It is the undeniable fact Obama couldn't win white votes and other minority votes excluding AA...
His NC win and Ind lose proved again and agin he followed the same pattern since day one...
So can his loyal AA half-brothers and culted young voters boost him enough to win over McCain???
Posted by: True Truth | May 8, 2008 2:17:49 PM
true truth has issues. He may in fact be a wingnut posing as a Hillary Fan.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | May 8, 2008 2:38:58 PM
Actually, I do have something "remotely negative" to say about Hillary.
Two years ago, my next door neighbor stood on my front lawn and sobbed. His younger brother had just had both his legs and one arm blown off in Iraq. For those of you who can't count, that's three out of four limbs.
Hillary Clinton voted to give Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq, without even bothering to read the report accompanying the legislation. All she did was stick her finger in the air to see which way the political winds were blowing, and decided - since she would be running for President - that the most important thing - more important than the American men and women who would die in foreign sands - was that she burnish her "toughness" credentials.
In my mind, this campaign isn't about phony issues like flag pins, 3:00 a.m. phone phone calls, "sniper fire" and gas-tax rebate panders. It's about defeating a candidate who cared more about her own ambition than she did the lives of American service men and women.
My next door neighbor's brother will have to live without his limbs for the rest of his life. Anytime Hillary wants to show some true courage, she can find time to look him up - and countless others like him - and apologize.
Posted by: balthus | May 8, 2008 2:40:04 PM
There is a reason that Hillary won't quit and that Pelosi said to let the race continue. Think about it.
Posted by: Belle | May 8, 2008 2:53:21 PM
Jimmy Carter was a loser democratic president and now he is a pathetic anti-semite. Plus, he said the votes of MI and FL should count - in 2012! Now that is a jerk ex-president.
Posted by: calli | May 8, 2008 2:55:55 PM
Good timing... his new pastor is just as whacked out as his old one. He called Moses, and Noah "thugs".
Man-oh-man this is good! This is what you get when you elect a black separatist.
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 3:08:47 PM
Hill the Bosnian General is like the horse she has chosen during the Kentuky derby " Eight Belles" she will collapse and break her two feet. Recently she is saying incorrect and inappropriate things, she is not thinking prorely anymore and saying things which could be or are racists. She is losing all at once.God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.
Posted by: BKMC | May 8, 2008 3:10:11 PM
CHAOS
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 3:19:11 PM
Please do condemn Hillary for her associations too. I want them to condemn each other for everything for a few more months. I'll do what I can to help.
And yes, I do judge people by the company they choose. They judged their associations when they made them, and therefore so do I. Why is that wrong?
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 3:30:19 PM
Why is it okay to say that 91% of black people are voting for Obama but not okay to say that Hillary has strong support among whites? This isn't racist, it's just fact.
Americans of all colors can see that Obama could not be where he is without overwhelming support of blacks and youth. They can not be ensured of supporting Clinton. Conversely, her white supporters (and others) cannot be ensured of voting for Obama.
This is a fact and stating it is not racist. It's breaking down voters by demographics, one of which is color.
We're all waaaay to touchy!
Posted by: HoosierSue | May 8, 2008 4:25:47 PM
I am not a US citizen to vote, but it was intresting to watch the election process in USA.
H Clinton looks like Bush who went to Iraq war by not listing to others, she is not able to see the reality about she don't have numbers and out all chances.
Hope she will realize soon for good.
Posted by: vinay p | May 8, 2008 4:29:00 PM
HoosieSue, what's great about this is that the Obama people are a small number, but they are true believers, as is the media. They don't see what's coming.
This is gonna be 1984, or 1988, or even 1972 all over again.
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 4:31:16 PM
Hillary voted to give Bush power to go to Iraq without even reading analysis on the situation. More elitest experts I suppose.
Posted by: X marks the spot | May 8, 2008 4:36:10 PM
Again, if you guys don't like Hillary, and neither do I, just defeat her with votes. It's starting to look like another case of the older woman who's paid her dues having to step aside for the younger man, without him ever actually out-performing her.
Posted by: Gary | May 8, 2008 4:49:46 PM
All of you who keep putting Hillary down really are uninformed. Hillary has been a solid democrat for 35+ years and has worked hard for the party. She has her flaws, but no one in their right mind can say that she wants to hurt the democratic party. She really is the better candidate to win the general election at this point because Obama is flawed. His flaws have been there, they just were well hidden until recently.
Posted by: Susan | May 8, 2008 5:04:05 PM
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