Hillary Clinton’s not about to cede the “youth vote” (and particularly the young woman vote) to Senator Obama. Here’s a clip of her answering questions from students on Darfur, “green-collar’” jobs, student loans, the economy, Iraq. She’s got a healthcare plan, an energy plan, a plan for Iraq, a global warming plan . . . she’s got a whole lot of plans.
Sound Bite: “I don’t think that there’s a contradiction between change and experience.”
Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), Barack Obama campaign national co-chair, didn’t think much of Hillary Clinton’s “emotional” moment before the New Hampshire primary.
Sound Bite: “Her appearance brought her to tears but not Hurricane Katrina.”
There’s a long road ahead, says John Edwards after coming in third in the New Hampshire primary. True enough, but the southerner could use a strong showing in the upcoming South Carolina primary.
Senator Obama tries to put a positive spin on his second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, citing the large Democratic turnout and the emergence of a “new American majority.”
Sound Bite: “We are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction. That’s what’s happening in America right now. Change is what’s happening in America.”
When the candidates squared off Saturday night in the last debate before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, WMUR-TV’s Scott Spradling cited a poll of Granite State voters that found Barack Obama scoring higher than Hillary Clinton in “likability.”
Hillary’s well-delivered reaction: “Well, that hurts my feelings. But I’ll try to go on.”
