Clinton Heads Back to Pennsylvania

By: Fernando Suarez
Topics: Hillary Clinton

(CBS)

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton makes her way to Pennsylvania today to continue her "Solutions for the American Economy Tour," midway through Barack Obama's six-day bus tour of that state. For weeks, Clinton has been the likely candidate to win Pennsylvania, and polls show her up by double-digits there. But one thing the Clinton campaign can't afford to happen is a come-from-behind win by Obama, a move that would most certainly seal the deal for Obama to capture the nomination.

Clinton has campaigned in Pennsylvania over the past 2 weeks, but the intensity of that campaigning has been nothing quite like the "Iowa-style" grind where candidates spent weeks on end canvassing the state. Both time and money are a factor for Clinton's efforts in Pennsylvania, but Clinton has pointed out several times that she will continue to push through the state until its April 22 primary.

But with growing pressure from some in the media and others in her party to drop out of the race, Clinton has employed a new strategy over the past few days in hopes of defusing that pressure. She has been using that argument as a way of rallying support from voters in states that have yet to vote.

Part of her stump speech now includes a line on how "some people" want this race to be over, and how "some people" don't want everyone's voices heard. The line, naturally, draws a negative reaction from the crowd, many of whom have yet to have an opportunity to cast a decisive vote in a presidential primary. Clinton hopes this argument will cast her opponents as anti-democratic and quick to discount the voices of the several million people left to vote in the upcoming 10 contests. With the nomination in flux and with Clinton trailing Obama by fewer than 150 pledged delegates, the contest will most certainly continue.

Clinton is expected to continue to make that point during her campaign stops, but she knows that only a win in Pennsylvania will help stave off further criticism for her to step aside in the race. A source close to the Clinton campaign said they feel confident in Pennsylvania, but they are faced with having to split their time between Pennsylvania and Indiana, a state where Obama currently leads in the polls.

"Pennsylvania will be a contest to watch. We have to balance that effort with campaigning in Indiana, where Obama has the lead," said the campaign source. "Obama is clearly contesting Pennsylvania, and he should be expected to do well there. He is spending a lot of time and money in the state and now has Senator Casey stumping for him."

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by susan10001-2009 April 1, 2008 11:01 AM EDT: She HAS to head back to PA!

Have you seen the NEW PA POLL? Info on drudge!!

RASMUSSEN POLL: Clinton Lead Shrinking in PA; Clinton 47% Obama 42%... Developing...; Reply to this comment


by jack3213 April 1, 2008 10:49 AM EDT: VOTING BECAUSE OF COLOR, CREED, OR *** AND NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO ISSUES OR WHAT THEY STAND FOR, OR WHAT THEY VOTED FOR IN THE SENATE, OR HOW MUCH CREDIBILITY THEY HAVE IS BEING FOOLISH AND UNEDUCATED. STOP BEING A VICTIM AND WANTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT AGGRAVATION. TRUE, BUSH IS NOT WHAT WE WANT ANYMORE, HOWEVER: MCCAIN IS FAR BETTER, MORE HONEST, AND MUCH MORE ABLE TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAN ANY OF THE TWO DUMB DEMOCRATS; Reply to this comment


by lordmi April 1, 2008 7:14 AM EDT: Fools!
She is solving JUST her problems !!!
She even does NOT pay her bills !
Insurance for her people!
Still owes to her own shcool!
That is the solution.
Also "experience" - she can NOT handle ANY deal!; Reply to this comment


by jedi08 April 1, 2008 6:50 AM EDT: ksh1022 posted: Obama is all talk and no action.

You people are the ones drinking the coolaide.

Lets compare. Hillary is a flat out liar about her experience. She lied about Bosnia, Lied about opposing Nafta, Lied about Ireland. She is all talk about FAKE action and is nothing more then a first lady.

Obama is the only politian to write two books himself, thats right Hillary had someone else write hers. He wrote that race speach on his own. He was smart enough to stand up against the war because he isn''t a calculated politician, blowing whichever way the polls tell her to.

She failed her bar exam the first time out, Obama got the highest score on his in the state. She has mismanaged her campaign while Obama has run circles around her.

I can tell all you Billary supporters are the less educated.

DUUUUUUUUU her last name is CLINTON that must be good. The women is a liar liar pants suit on fire. THis race is over and I love hearing all you idiots and women wine about your stupid girl.; Reply to this comment


by ksh1022 April 1, 2008 4:29 AM EDT: Obama is all talk no action. Obama supporters have been drinking the kool-aid. We need a problem solver like Hillary not a talker like Obama.A vote for Obama is a vote for McCain as the republicans will eat Obama for breakfast. They''ve got Wright, Farrakan, Odinga, Rezko,E.Jones,and Michelle. I can see the commercials. If you thought Kerry got "swift boated", you haven''t seen anything yet. They''ve got nothing new on Hillary. They know she''s done a solid job in the Senate. They know she''s tough and smart. Of course they want baby Obama. He''s easy to beat. He''ll be easier than John Kerry.; Reply to this comment


by n_fournier March 31, 2008 9:35 PM EDT: I am actually watching campaign coverage right now, and laughing at how all they can talk about Obama today is how bad a bowler he is. Or in the past about his pastor. What about lying to the country? How can either of those things Obama did ever compare to blatantly lying to the country? Even more humorous, is the fact that the Clinton''s seem to expect Obama to mess up royally and that''s how she is gonna win! If, in fact, they find a way to give Clinton the nomination despite the popular vote going to Obama, that is the point when I will change parties.; Reply to this comment


by hutchkey44 March 31, 2008 9:18 PM EDT: Just a few MORE Lies She Has TOLD US!!!!

Remember it was Hillary who said her daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9-11----when she was actually in bed watching the news reports.

It was Hillary who told us she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to climb Mt. Everest. He climbed it five years after she was born.

She didn''''t know that her brother was being paid to secure pardons from her husband.

She was always a Yankees fan while growing up in Chicago.

She negotiated the release of refugees in Macedonia even though they were released the day before she arrived there.

And among other things.she didn''''t know that her White House staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.

All examples of the kind of double-talk that the Clintons engage in. If their lips are moving they are likely telling you something that isn''''t entirely the truth.

And what happened on the day that Senator Clinton was lambasted on her incorrect recollection of Bosnia?

She told reporters she couldn%uFFFDt stay in a church headed by someone like Jeremiah Wright.

In other words----"don''''t ask me about mythical bullets when you can ask Obama about his real life preacher."; Reply to this comment


by rufisgufis March 31, 2008 8:27 PM EDT: I was in the audience when Hillary told her story about sniper fire in Bosnia. She looked right at me at one point and began to cackle. I thought, what a brave woman she is and now she can laugh about it. Then I found out it was all a big lie.

When I learned the truth I felt I had been made a fool of. She appeared so earnest, so truthful. How could she do that? I spoke to some of my friends after the truth came out. We all agreed we would not vote for her; additionally, we have formed a group to campaign against her. I don''t know how many other lies she told, but this one she told me right to my face. I''ll never forget feeling like an idiot for believing her.; Reply to this comment


by snoopy6472_dotmac March 31, 2008 7:11 PM EDT: with regard to hillarymann''s post:

while i''d love for barack obama to take the nomination, come november, i will support the democratic candidate. barack or hillary--end of sentence. that one might see a vote for ralph nadar as better spent than one for obama worries me. hillary and her supporters seem to be fueling division within the party. ultimately, it may end up being more costly than i''d like to think.; Reply to this comment