I would have had to 'release the hounds.'
Posted on 12/15/2007 5:31:25 PM PST by doug from upland
Lead in doubt, Clinton knocks on N.Hampshire doors
Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:15pm EST Obama edges ahead of
By Scott Malone
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton went door-to-door in freezing New Hampshire on Saturday, asking for support in the early voting state where her once-huge lead in the Democratic presidential primary race has melted away.
The New York senator knocked on doors along a snow-covered block of Manchester, less than a month before the crucial January 8 New Hampshire primary, the second binding contest of the 2008 presidential campaign.
"I'd be honored to have your support," Clinton said on the front porch of Mike Glickstein, a Manchester resident.
Glickstein, a 38-year-old maintenance worker whose beagle howled incessantly as he spoke to the former first lady, said he had intended to vote for Clinton already.
"I like her support of the middle class, I like her husband a lot," Glickstein said, referring to former President Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has seen her lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, her main rival for the Democratic nomination, evaporate both in New Hampshire and Iowa, which on January 3 kicks off the state-by-state contests to choose the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
Two polls this week showed Clinton and Obama in a statistical dead heat in New Hampshire, each with the support of about 30 percent of voters. In September, Clinton had led Obama by 20 points.
PERSONAL CAMPAIGNING KEY
In a subsequent speech to voters in Plaistow, New Hampshire, Clinton said the state would be important to her efforts to secure her party's nomination.
"I'm counting on you for this primary election," she said. "It's a decision that I know you take very seriously. That's why you attend events like this, that's why you open your doors to us when we come knocking."
Clinton said that if elected she would work to find a way of providing universal health care to U.S. citizens, a fight she faced before as First Lady when her husband was president. She also said she would do away with the controversial education program No Child Left Behind and that if elected she would call on the leaders of the top emitters of greenhouse gases to meet every three months to agree on a solution to cut back their emissions.
Lou D'Allesandro, a New Hampshire state senator who accompanied Clinton as she knocked on about 10 doors, said personal campaigning was critical in his state.
"Politics is connecting with people, and this is how you do it here. I'd like to see her here more," he said.
Clinton's advisers once saw New Hampshire as a "firewall," which could protect her if she did poorly in Iowa, said University of New Hampshire political scientist Dante Scala.
"The firewall has largely disappeared now," he said. "If she loses both ... it would be very difficult to recover."
After New Hampshire, the next big contest is in South Carolina, where the large black population could flock to Obama, a fellow African American, Scala said.
"She's very intelligent, she has a lot of charisma. I wish she would talk more about women, because I think that would be helpful," said Herb Meyer, a 50-year-old physician from Danville, New Hampshire, who turned out to see Clinton in Plaistow.
"She's got a lot of presence, Barack Obama has a lot of presence," Meyer said, adding that he wasn't yet sure for whom he would vote.
(Editing by Eric Walsh)
Okay, thanks.
And all those Dem candidates have campaign organizations. After she is nominated, they will all be consolidated. Osama Hussein bin-Ladin and Barak Hussein bin-Obama will endorse her, as will Oprah and her organization.
Who controls the DNC? Howard Dean spread the Spitoon's bucks all over the country, especially into districts with little chance to beat the incumbent Republican. He was criricized by pundits for wasting bucks. It will pay off for the Toon in the general election. Those House losers all have organizations beholden to Thighlery.
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Hillary sure got lucky that she just "happened" to knock on doors of people that already support her. Think of the odds!
I would have had to 'release the hounds.'
I don’t get that pic of Hillary. Is she so stupid that she walked to the middle of the front walk before she realized it wasn’t shoveled? Is she going to leapfrog over to the sidewalk?
I knew this crap was either from Reuters or Asspress. Man, would I hate to see that witch at my door, even on Halloween.
It’s hard to tell. Could there be a narrow path to the sidewalk that is difficult for us to see from the photo?
Dude! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?
Jack Palance inquiry...
I was about to post that same thought. She knew which doors to knock on.
What would he have to do? Next time she starts cackling on the stage, Just walk over to her, nice and slow. Stare her down for a few seconds. Then slap her face. I mean a good bwitch slap that send her makeup flying.
Sure hope America only votes for a pretty face.
Is she also telling the people in New Hampshire that she is the only female who slept in the White House who “...did...not...have...sex...with...that...man...Bill...Clinton”?
Glickstein, a 38-year-old maintenance worker whose beagle howled incessantly as he spoke to the former first lady, said he had intended to vote for Clinton already.
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I think some dogs are quite sensitive to demonic forces nearby.
But I wish he’d have stopped howling long enough to take a bite of cankle.
But then that would have been cruelty to animals.
I think it would take ?Huma? her Muslim right hand woman/bedmate to do that.
It can’t be worth it. She’s aging faster than Jimmy Carter did.
Probably the same odds that he makes phone calls for her...
Pray for W and Our Troops
If you look at her cheek (our left her right) - it looks like she was shot in the face back in the day... or is that some form of paralysis.
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