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It's not going to be easy - Clinton
19/05/2008 08:42 - (SA)
Bowling Green - With time running out on her White House campaign, Hillary Clinton plugged away on Sunday in her uphill battle to overtake Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"It's not enough to show up and cheer," the former first lady exhorted a rally at Western Kentucky University. "You've got to get out and vote. You've got to bring everybody you can find to vote."
The New York senator started her day by attending church
and then headed off to "Get Out the Vote" rallies in Kentucky,
which along with Oregon holds Democratic contests on Tuesday.
Obama holds a commanding lead in the pledged delegates to
this summer's party convention that will pick a candidate to
run against Republican John McCain in November. While Clinton
was expected to win handily in Kentucky, Obama was ahead in the
polls in Oregon, leaving only three more primaries before the
party voting ends on June 3.
At a fundraiser in Oregon on Saturday night, Obama
predicted he would win in the state and get enough national
convention delegates to "put us over the top".
His campaign seemed confident of achieving enough delegates
to win the nomination at August's convention that the Illinois
senator planned to be in Iowa on Tuesday to celebrate where his
first victory in January launched his campaign.
Clinton indicated she was going to keep going. "It's not
going to be easy and it doesn't happen by wishing and hoping
for it," she said in Bowling Green. "It happens by rolling up
our sleeves and getting to work."
Looking to November
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that financial
backers of both Obama and Clinton have begun private talks,
including a dinner in Washington last week, to discuss the two
campaigns working together after June 3.
One of the approximately 35 attendees at the dinner,
Philadelphia lawyer Mark Aronchick who has raised more than $1m for Clinton, said her backers were not deserting her
but realised planning for November was necessary.
"Only if we do this right, and see this through in the
right way, will there be a chance for a full, rapid and largely
complete unification of the party," he told the Post.
- Reuters
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US Elections Special Report
