On the West Coast, At Least, Hillary Gets Barack-Type Crowds
SAN JOSE -- In California, Hillary Clinton is campaigning like Barack Obama – drawing massive crowds and casting herself as a grassroots candidate.
“Who are we for?” Diane Feinstein, who introduced Clinton, called from a stage crowded with California elected officials under a sprawling white tent in the San Jose convention center.
‘Hillary!” answered the thousands of fervent supporters.
The enormous and roaring crowds Clinton is attracting out here in San Diego and San Jose underline her popularity in California, and the intensity and volume of the crowd actually seems to have taken reporters aback.
Clinton seemed astonished too.
“Hello San Jose,” she said, yelling into the microphone, as she tends to do in front of larger audiences. “I am so excited to be here with all of you.”
She called it a “great, great crowd” before wading into her talking points about the economy, immigration, what she said was the disaster of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. As was the case in San Diego, she reserved her only barbs for Obama -- and blunted ones at that -- about health care.
“That’s one of the big differences between me and my opponent,” she said speaking about her plan to mandate health insurance coverage to all Americans. And, “You know that I want to cover everyone and I have a plan to do that and my opponent would leave about 15 million people out to begin with,” to which the crowd broke out into a baritone boo.
Clinton also what she called a “B.Y.O.P. party” in which Californians would use their cell phones to “call a million Californian over this weekend.”
“This is a grassroots generated effort,” she said. Later, Clinton said that the purpose of her candidacy was to improve life for the future, for “your generation, and your generation, and your generation."
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
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- RCP Average
- 46.4
- 41.6
- Obama +4.8
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- 55.7
- 32.7
- +23.0
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- 34.7
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I am a moderate Democrat but I am enthusiastically supporting Barack Obama because I believe he will bring about the changes our nation so badly needs by reaching across the aisle and working with members of both parties. The bitter partisanship in Congress is making it impossible to get reforms in healthcare, the environment, immigration and our foreign policy. Hillary Clinton has ran a nasty, mean-spirted campaign against Obama, full of mud-slingling, character assassination and the politics of personal destruction. As President she and her husband will make the presidencies of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush pale in comparison when it comes their vindictiveness, secretiveness and wanting to get back at their enemies.
America has too many problems that need to be resolved and they never will be resolved if we demonize those who disagree with us. Obama has proven he can work with those whose views don't always equal his in a way to find common ground and get meaningful legislation passed that will benefit all Americans. He will hold true to his beliefs but will still be able to get majorities to pass legislation because of the type of leader he is.
We don't need more partisanship in Congress, we need less. We don't need more lies, more mud slinging, and more dirty campaigning. Nixon is long gone, and Bush will soon be gone. If revenge and getting back at the Republicans is your motive, then vote for Hillary Clinton. If progress and change and laws protecting our environment, extending healthcare to more of our citizens, a fair and decent immigration policy, and a foreign policy that will restore American values without making us a pariah in the world is what you want, then you have one clear choice: Barack Obama.
I am a moderate Democrat but I am enthusiastically supporting Barack Obama because I believe he will bring about the changes our nation so badly needs by reaching across the aisle and working with members of both parties. The bitter partisanship in Congress is making it impossible to get reforms in healthcare, the environment, immigration and our foreign policy. Hillary Clinton has ran a nasty, mean-spirted campaign against Obama, full of mud-slingling, character assassination and the politics of personal destruction. As President she and her husband will make the presidencies of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush pale in comparison when it comes their vindictiveness, secretiveness and wanting to get back at their enemies.
America has too many problems that need to be resolved and they never will be resolved if we demonize those who disagree with us. Obama has proven he can work with those whose views don't always equal his in a way to find common ground and get meaningful legislation passed that will benefit all Americans. He will hold true to his beliefs but will still be able to get majorities to pass legislation because of the type of leader he is.
We don't need more partisanship in Congress, we need less. We don't need more lies, more mud slinging, and more dirty campaigning. Nixon is long gone, and Bush will soon be gone. If revenge and getting back at the Republicans is your motive, then vote for Hillary Clinton. If progress and change and laws protecting our environment, extending healthcare to more of our citizens, a fair and decent immigration policy, and a foreign policy that will restore American values without making us a pariah in the world is what you want, then you have one clear choice: Barack Obama.
Just how many is she getting? I never hear an exact or estimated number, but just that she's getting large crowds. I never hear Obama say at any of his rallys anything about his HUGE crowds, but I've heard Hillary as well as Bill say how large the crowds are at their events. This has to tell you something.
I also heard that yesterday at the UCLA event, the crowd was not very large and half of the auditorium was closed off to make it appear to be a large crowd. Hillary just does not have the MOmentum that Barack has, and that's a FACT.
The Clintons have spent 15 years cultivating L.A. and the cult of celebrity. But, they came to New York for the Presidency-in-Waiting. CA doesn't know them like we do...now that we have fulfilled our usefulness.
HILLARY 2008!!!
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