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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Clinton boosts fundraising after primary
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton parlayed her campaign-saving primary victory into a fundraising bonanza Wednesday in the Democratic presidential race. Rival Barack Obama, his delegate lead intact, said, "We just keep on plugging away."
One day after Clinton's comfortable win in Pennsylvania, she and Obama looked ahead to contests on May 6 in Indiana and North Carolina and offered sharply contrasting assessments of the race to date.
"The big win that I had, the broad base of coalition that I put
together, is exactly what we're going to need to have in the fall," the former first lady said, arguing that her Pennsylvania victory showed she was more electable than her rival.
Obama countered Clinton's suggestions that he's not tough enough to shoulder the presidency. "You know, I've always believed that if you're tough, you don't have to talk about it," he said.
With her win, Clinton made only a modest dent in Obama's overall delegate lead, and she has virtually no prospect of overtaking him before the primary season ends on June 3. Instead, she hopes to convince party leaders who will attend the national convention as superdelegates that she is better able to defeat Republican John McCain in November and persuade them to swing behind her candidacy as a result.
With a handful of Pennsylvania delegates yet to be awarded, Obama had 1,723.5 and Clinton had 1,592.5 in The Associated Press nationwide count. It takes 2,025 to clinch the nomination.
Clinton said donors had contributed more than $3 million to her candidacy in the hours since her Pennsylvania victory, some of it from thousands of new donors. Her campaign said she was on track for raising $10 million in the first 24 hours after her victory.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., waves after her speech as a supporter holds a sign for her to autograph at a rally in Indianapolis Wednesday.
Financial reports on file with the Federal Election Commission underscored her need. Obama showed more than $40 million in cash on hand as of April 1, while her debts of $10 million exceeded her cash of just more than $9 million.
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McCain sought to strengthen his credentials as an unconventional Republican, campaigning in a poor region of Kentucky following stops earlier in the week in Selma, Ala., site of a historic civil rights march, and Youngstown,
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Democratic candidates in the state gubernatorial primary support Obama, whom it labels "just too extreme for North Carolina."
"The television advertisement you are planning to air degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats," McCain wrote Linda Daves, North Carolina party chairwoman. "In the strongest
Ohio, a down-at-the-mouth steel city.
He spent part of Wednesday in an intramural dispute, unsuccessfully urging the North Carolina Republican Party not to air a commercial that shows Obama's former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, denouncing the United States from the pulpit.
The commercial says both
terms, I implore you to not run this advertisement."
Daves turned the request aside, saying, "It is entirely appropriate for voters to evaluate candidates based on their past associations."
Clinton and Obama each netted one superdelegate during the day.
In New Albany, Ind., Obama was asked why he thought he could win Indiana when he lost Pennsylvania and Ohio, two states with large numbers of blue-collar workers.