Democrats spar over fight for the nomination
Bea Karnes
Today on the presidential campaign trail, Hillary Clinton makes stops in North Carolina while Barack Obama is in New York City. Both candidates will be talking about the economy. The numbers show Clinton and Obama dead even up against each other, each at 45%.
Today, there are new questions, and a new idea, about when and how the Democrats' race might end. Today, as democrats duel over the economy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduces Barack Obama. Is it Bloomberg's first move toward an endorsement?
And can anything prevent a primary fight stretching through the summer? Sen. Obama said, "I think that would be disruptive and hard on the party as well as the nominee."
Hillary Clinton supporters show no sign of backing down, in a week questions swirl over her multiple claims that she landed in Bosnia under sniper fire while First Lady, visibly not true. To newspaper editors she said, "It's what I said when I was sleep deprived. You can read my book, I said something very different. Yeah, I misspoke."
While campaigning for his wife in West Virginia, former President Bill Clinton said, "If a politician doesn't want to get beaten up, he shouldn't run for office." Bill Clinton warned voters in West Virginia to saddle up for a heated fight. And top Clinton fundraisers wrote a letter to house speaker Nancy Pelosi, scolding her for hinting the delegate leader, now Obama, should become the nominee.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Obama, but not Clinton, edging out John McCain head-to-head. In California, McCain acknowledged the costs of the Iraq war but pressed to stick it out. Sen. John McCain said, "We have incurred a moral responsibility in Iraq." With eight months to go in the race all three candidates have raised a billion dollars, more than the size of the economies of several nations in Africa.
