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Battling Clinton enjoys huge lead in upcoming votes
AFP
Published: Monday May 12, 2008
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Hillary Clinton looked headed Monday for landslide wins in two looming
primaries, despite pressure for her to cede to Barack Obama's
mathematical lock on the Democratic White House race.
The former first lady, vowing to battle on even as Obama turns his
sights on Republican presumptive nominee John McCain, led her foe by
36 points in the latest poll out of West Virginia, which votes
Tuesday.
In Kentucky, which holds its primary on May 20, Clinton was up 58 to
31 percent, in another poll suggesting Obama faces an uncomfortable
two weeks.
Huge wins for Clinton in both states will do little to loosen Obama's
advantage in the epic Democratic nominating contest.
But lopsided losses in the two states could underscore the Illinois
senator's struggle to win over white, working-class voters, which
could be a problem in November's election.
Arizona Senator McCain, who Monday gave a major speech on global
warming, and Obama are increasingly fighting the early shots in the
general election campaign.
The Obama campaign has launched a 50-state voter registration drive
and both sides are trying to woo independent voters, plotting battle
plans to be rolled out as soon as the Democratic race is over.
Highlighting his growing focus on the election, Obama laid plans to
campaign on Tuesday in November swing state Missouri and on Wednesday
in Michigan, after stops in West Virginia and Kentucky.
A potential complication to McCain's White House bid emerged with the
news that former Republican congressman Bob Barr, 59, plans to run for
president on the Libertarian Party's ticket.
Barr, who played a key role in the congressional impeachment of former
president Bill Clinton, said there was not "currently or anywhere on
the horizon" any candidate who understood the need for fiscal
conservatism and America's founding principles.
He added that if McCain fails to win the presidency, "it will be
because Senator McCain did not present, and his party did not present,
a vision, an agenda, a platform and a series of programs" for the
American people.
Clinton meanwhile poured her energy into one last day's campaigning in
West Virginia.
A Suffolk University poll had Clinton leading Obama by 60 percent to
24 percent in the rural coal-mining state, which is one of America's
poorest.
In a Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll of probable Democratic voters,
Clinton led by 58 percent of 31 percent, though the survey showed
either Democrat had a tough task in beating McCain in the state in
November.
Clinton trails Obama in Democratic delegates, nominating contests won
and the popular vote, with only six more contests left in the
gruelling primary season.
She has also lost her lead in superdelegates, the party officials who
will likely decide the nomination. Now, neither Clinton nor Obama can
reach the nominating threshold of 2,025 delegates on pledged delegates
alone.
Obama added at least four more superdelegates to his tally on Monday.
According to independent website RealClearPolitics, he leads Clinton
by 278 superdelegates to 272, and in total delegates by 1,869 to
1,698.
But in a reference to President George W. Bush's record on Iraq,
Clinton strategist Geoff Garin dismissed the media's near-universal
predictions of an Obama win.
"Well, you know, we've already had one unfortunate experience with a
leader declaring mission accomplished when it really wasn't," he told
MSNBC.
McCain meanwhile sharply broke with his fellow Republican Bush on
climate change, in a strategy that also had one eye on independent
voters who are worried about the environment.
"I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on
serious challenges," he said in a speech in the western state of
Oregon, in a clear rebuke to the Bush administration.
The Obama campaign, however, said McCain had voted in the Senate
against financial sup****t for alternative energy. Clinton said: "While
Senator McCain's proposals may be (an) improvement on President
Bush's, that's not saying much."
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