Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama: the (long) battle goes on
New York, February 7 2008. It will be long. It will be tough. After tying on Super Tuesday, Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (Photo Daniella Zalcman) are back on the campaign trail. While fighting for the votes, both candidates are looking to raise money to keep their presidential dream alive. Mr Obama’s prospects are currently brighter than Mrs Clinton’s. On Wednesday February 6, Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe said in a letter to supporters that $3 million was raised the evening after Super Tuesday. On Thursday morning, the rose to $7.1 million, according to the Obama campaign Web site. The announcement came the same day that Senator Hillary Clinton of New York said she loaned her presidential campaign $5 million last month. Shortly after announcing the loan, the Clinton camp sent out an email to her supporters, asking them to help raise $3 million in three days. Such an amount would almost double the recent rate of giving to her campaign Both candidates have chosen different paths ahead of the string of primaries in the coming days. Barack Obama traveled to New Orleans on Thursday and was scheduled to mo move on to Nebraska later that day before heading to Washington State on Friday. The three states are holding primaries and caucuses on Feb. 9. Hillary Clinton was scheduled to meet with students at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County on Thursday afternoon, as she is trying to avoid an Obama sweep on Feb 12, when Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. hold their primaries. Obama has also planned to campaign in Virginia on Sunday and Monday. The Illinois senator has been endorsed by Gov. Timothy Kaine and Rep. Robert C. Scott (D), Virginia’s only black congressman. In Maryland, the State with the largest black population outside the South of the U.S., demographics favor Obama as they do in Louisiana. In Washington, he is expected to draw a lot of support from liberals and young voters. Confronted with such grim prospects, the Clinton camp is looking ahead to the March 4 primaries in Ohio and Texas, when nearly 400 delegates will be at stake. Some in the Democratic party are starting to feel uneasy with the prospect of a long battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. “I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April,” Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic party, said Wednesday in an interview with the NY1 news channel, “but if we don’t, then we’re going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement. Because I don’t think we can afford to have a brokered convention”. New York / Jean-Cosme Delaloye CommentsYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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