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Arnie backs McCain, wife Obama
04/02/2008 09:24 - (SA)
Los Angeles - California first lady Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan, endorsed Democratic Senator Barack Obama for US president on Sunday, days after her husband, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, backed Republican John McCain.
"I thought, if Barack Obama were a state, he'd be California," Shriver told the crowd jamming an Obama rally at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I mean think about it. Diverse. Open. Smart. Independent. Bucks tradition.
Innovative. Inspiring. Dreamer. Leader."
Obama, an Illinois senator, is running neck and neck with
New York Senator Hillary Clinton days before Super Tuesday, in
which California and more than 20 other states hold primaries
and caucuses to nominate Democratic and Republican candidates
for the November presidential election.
On the Republican side, front-runner McCain's closest rival
is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Shriver was flanked at the rally by her cousin Caroline
Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F Kennedy and
television talk-show star Oprah Winfrey.
Caroline Kennedy and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the
brother of the slain president, have also backed Obama.
Schwarzenegger has endorsed John McCain, the moderate
Republican senator. His primary challenger for the Republican
nomination is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
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