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Story By: Bea Karnes
Source: NBC
Hillary Clinton heads to Pennsylvania today, Barack Obama to Mississippi, now having to respond to Clinton's suggestion of how this primary impasse could end.
Ahead of tomorrow's primary in Mississippi, is Hillary Clinton offering voters two for one? Sen. Hillary Clinton said, "I've had people say I wish I could vote for both of you, well, that might be possible someday." Bill Clinton pushed a Clinton-Obama ticket too, courting torn voters, saying, "If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force."
Political analyst Steve McMahon says, "What they seem to be trying to do is suggest that by voting for Hillary Clinton you actually get Barack Obama too, only as Vice-President instead of President."
Obama's not biting. He said Friday, "You won't see him as a vice-presidential candidate." His strategy: lump Clinton with Republicans on Iraq. Sen. Barack Obama said "it was because of George Bush with an assist from Hillary Clinton and John McCain that we entered into this war."
Both camps are leaning on superdelegates hard. Former Senator and Obama supporter Tom Daschle said "Barack Obama has won 29 contests, Hillary Clinton has won 13 contests. That's the bottom line." Pennsylvania Governor and Clinton supporter Ed Rendell says "Hillary Clinton has won states with about 260 electoral votes, Barack Obama has won states with about 190, and we decide the presidency not by a popular vote, we decide it by the electoral vote."
On Florida and Michigan, pressure to revote. Governor Ed Rendell says, "Let Florida and Michigan vote." Tom Daschle says, "We don't have any problem with that."
Two governors, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, both Clinton supporters, now offer to raise half of the cost of the revotes themselves.
The dispute has the potential to decide the nomination. If the states sign on two new contests could be added to primary calendar, probably in early June.
