O’DONNELL: Joining us here in Denver is former DNC Chairman and now Obama supporter Terry McAuliffe who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Terry, great to see you.
MCAULIFFE: Great being with ya. Great crowd behind you.
O’DONNELL: Your voice -- your voice is starting to sound like my colleague's Andrea Mitchell’s.
MCAULIFFE: Well, you know, i have been doing a lot of talking. i have a lot of things to say about Barack Obama and it's exciting.
O’DONNELL: Well, let's talk first about Hillary Clinton who, of course, you know very well, as well as former president Bill Clinton. What is she going to say tonight in this speech? will she not only talk about Barack Obama but will she deliver some of the red meat some democrats say needs to be done at this democratic convention in terms of drawing distinctions with John McCain?
MCAULIFFE: She's going to do it all. She’s going to come in first, thank all her supporters, the 18 million people who came out, worked their hearts out to help Hillary Clinton win in the different primaries and caucuses around the country. then most importantly, she's going to tell her delegates and her supporters around the country it is time to enthusiastically come together to support senator Obama to make him the next president, and here are the reasons why, and she will talk health care and education, all of the things she fought on, and then she's also going to draw contrasts. George Bush, you've heard me say it before, one of the worst presidents in our nation's history, the economy in shambles, two wars going on. We have to turn the page. Barack Obama is going to turn that page, and she's going to draw a contrast of where we need to take this country. She’s going to give a great speech tonight. She is fired up. I talked to her a little bit ago, but that's the Hillary Clinton I know and love. She’s going to come here and unify our party. she's going to bring all of us together to make Barack Obama the next president of the united states of America. Making history.
O’DONNELL: Hillary Clinton will speak tonight, the former president, Bill Clinton, will speak on Wednesday night.
MCAULIFEE: yeah.
O’DONNELL: i want to read you something Howard Wolfson wrote about Bill Clinton. he said, ""he feels like he was painted as a racist during the primary process. Senator Obama would go a long way toward healing these wounds if he were to specifically praise the accomplishment of the Clinton presidency in a line or two during his speech on Thursday." terry, why this continuous discussion about the hurt feelings of bill Clinton? is he really upset? Still?
MCAULIFEE: no. and I don't know why we're having this discussion. You know, I speak to the president every single day --
O’DONNELL: Howard Wolfson is writing about it.
MCAULIFEE: well, I can't honor what others say, but i do talk to him more than most people. Just went to Africa with him, saw what he's done for all these children all over Africa. He’s upbeat, he's coming to the convention to lay out the framework why we democrats -- this is going to be a tough election. why we have to win this election. We have to restore and do what we need to do in this country but all over the world. Nobody can give a better speech than Bill Clinton. He’s going to lay out the case, the framework, of why we need to elect Barack Obama. So tonight is Hillary. Tomorrow night is President Clinton and then Barack Obama on Thursday night. By the time Barack Obama finishes up his speech at INVESCO field, we're going to be a unified party. Those 18 million people who went for Hillary Clinton, they are going to be for Barack Obama. We are going to come out of here like a booster rocket heading to November 4th.
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JOE: Was the media -- did the media ask Barack Obama as many tough questions as they asked your candidate?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: First of all, everybody had tough questions, Joe. We went through 16 debates.
HOST: Were they as fair to your candidate as they were to Barack Obama?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: I don't think anyone in the history of american politics was treated the way Hillary Clinton was treated. [Video]
ASPEN, Colo. -- The annual Aspen Ideas Festival attracts a wide range of political leaders, academics and assorted intellectuals to the exclusive Colorado resort, and this year was no exception.
Again former president Bill Clinton jetted in -- to address many topics, including Africa, philanthropy and improving girls' education worldwide.
I spied our former commander-in-chief dining at the Matsuhisa restaurant in Aspen Thursday night -- joined by wife Hillary Clinton's ex-campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe and longtime Clinton mainstay John Podesta. While the ex-prez skirted a table of well-known Chicago Barack Obama supporters -- including Christy Hefner, husband Bill Marovitz and Linda Johnson Rice -- McAuliffe did stop by to stress, ''We're all on the same team now! This election is too important.''
Asked to guess Obama's running mate choice, McAuliffe picked Delaware senator and ex-presidential candidate Joe Biden, due to the Senate foreign relations committee chairman's ''international experience.''
(http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/1042226,CST-FTR-zp07.article)
Terry McAuliffe was obviously one of Hillary's most aggressive and high-profile advocates during the primary, but now McAuliffe is really doing his part to help Obama get elected.
We hear McAuliffe will be the main attraction at a unity event for Obama this Thursday, along with Rep. Artur Davis, a top Obama supporter.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/07/terry-mcauliffe-hosting-u_n_111294.html)
(http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/bill_and_barack_make_nice.html)
If it made sense for Barack Obama to stage a splashy event with Hillary Clinton in a place called Unity, it might have been just as significant that his call on Monday to Bill Clinton was from a town in Missouri named Independence. For all the intrigue that had surrounded this moment, the actual conversation centered on politics, not any lingering hard feelings, sources in both camps say. The former President, who received the call at home in Chappaqua after a swing through Europe, pledged to do whatever he is asked to do to help Obama get elected. Terry McAuliffe, the Bill Clinton confidant who chaired Hillary Clinton's campaign, says Clinton told Obama: "I'm at your disposal."
What might that entail? Bill Clinton's efforts on behalf of John Kerry in 2004 were late and limited--something that Kerry's campaign took to be a slight. The only major event that Clinton did on Kerry's behalf was a huge rally in Philadelphia seven weeks after Clinton's quadruple bypass.
But Obama has no trouble generating mega-crowds on his own, nor does he need Clinton's help in fundraising. Instead, says McAuliffe, it might make more sense for the Obama to deploy Bill as Hillary did, in small towns and rural areas that have never seen a political star of his magnitude in the flesh. The Obama campaign knows well how effective Bill Clinton was in bringing out the vote in these settings. One top Obama strategist told me that the reason the Illinois Senator lost the popular vote in Texas was not those now-famous 3 a.m. phone call ads, but rather, the fact the Bill was working precincts on his wife's behalf up and down the eastern and western edges of the state.
Both the Obama campaign and Clinton's allies downplayed the idea that the timing of the call was a response to a round of press reports about petulance on Clinton's part. "They've been trying to get in touch with each other for a while," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. McAuliffe noted that Hillary Clinton is "the political head of the family now," and maintained that her appearance with Obama was the far more important event. Any delay in scheduling the conversation between the two men, he said, was out of concern that Bill not upstage Hillary's appearance with Obama. McAuliffe also disputed reports that Bill Clinton believes Obama owes him an apology. None was offered during the phone call, McAuliffe said, "nor should there have been."
(http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/bill_and_barack_make_nice.html)
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HOST: Moments ago we reported that Barack Obama and Bill Clinton had their first conversation since Obama essentially locked up the nomination. It was a private conversation, and statements from both sides say they are impressed by each other. Here to talk more about this is the man who ran Hillary Clinton's campaign as chairman, Terry McAuliffe. Terry, good to see you. what can you tell us about this conversation?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: You know, I was on CNN yesterday. I said, I don't know what the fuss is about. The president is now back in the country. He was traveling all over the world and he'll talk in the next 24, 48 hours. Sure enough, they spoke today. The president said he had a great conversation, ready to go on the campaign trail, do whatever Barack Obama wants him to do, whatever the democrats need him to do. Just as i thought, just as I said yesterday, you know, it was a great conversation. He's ready to go to make sure the democrats win this fall. [Video]
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Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton showered each other with praise yesterday in their first joint appearance since the end of the Democratic presidential primary season at an event in which the senator from New York urged hundreds of her top donors to get behind the party's presumptive nominee.
Clinton spoke first at the event at a Washington hotel, telling her disappointed supporters that Democrats "are a family, and we have an opportunity now to really demonstrate clearly we do know what's at stake, and we will do whatever it takes to win back this White House."
Obama hailed his former rival and her backers. "I recognize that this room shared the same passion that a roomful of my supporters would show. I do not expect that passion to be transferred. Senator Clinton is unique, and your relationships with her are unique." But he added: "Senator Clinton and I at our core agree deeply that this country needs to change."
He also sought to lead the move to unite by example, announcing that he had personally written a check for $2,300, the maximum he can give, to help retire Clinton's more than $20 million in campaign debt and that he had urged his biggest supporters to follow suit. The announcement drew a standing ovation. More than 200 Clinton fundraisers were on hand for the emotional event. Clinton supporter Terence R. McAuliffe, who emceed the event, said that the people in the sparse conference room had helped to bring in $230 million for her campaign.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604151_pf.html)
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Bill Clinton's role in Obama's campaign is still a work in progress, even though he issued a brief statement of support through a spokesman earlier this week.
But Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, told reporters Thursday that the former president was ready to go "24-7" if necessary to help Obama defeat McCain in November.
"He's willing to do whatever it takes. Winning the White House is of paramount importance, not only to Hillary but of course to President Clinton," McAuliffe said.
(http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1818401,00.html)
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Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe said Friday that her team had been working to drum up support for Obama since Clinton suspended her campaign this month and endorsed Obama.
"We have done this now for three weeks," he said on CNN's "American Morning." "We've done conference calls all over the country to all of our people. 'OK, we tried. We gave it everything we had. Now we need to move forward and support Sen. Obama.' "
Asked about the possibility of an Obama-Clinton ticket, McAuliffe said, "I think if she were on the ticket, I think we honestly ... would control the White House for 16 years. ... But Sen. Obama's got to make that decision himself."
(http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/27/clinton.obama/)
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LARRY: We'll be back with our panel in just a moment.Let's go back to Washington to Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman supporting Barack Obama. He was the mc of this event tonight. How did that go, mc?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: I could never be the mc you are. We had about 300 people come in to meet with Senator Obama and Hillary was there. They raised $230 million for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Tonight it was move the torch out and get behind Senator Obama and move forward. We've got to win the White House. It's no fun losing, but there are bigger issues out there,: health care, education, tonight was the beginning. Let's move together toward the fall campaign. Senator Obama personally gave me a check for Hillary Clinton. His finance chairwoman gave me a check for Hillary Clinton. So there were a lot of checks being exchanged tonight. [Video]
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MAGGIE: Joining me is chairman of Senator Clinton's campaign. good morning, Terry.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Good morning, Maggie.
MAGGIE: We see Senator Clinton support Senator Obama just like she said she would. But it's easy to endorse somebody who just wrote you a $2,300 check. Tell me the importance of that gesture.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: We have 300 top supporters around the country. That room last night raised $230 million for Hillary's campaign. It was significant to get everybody together and Senator Obama said he wants to help Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton has said she will do anything she can to help Senator Obama win this fall,. so it was a great unity last night. Great feeling in the room. People were fired up. Maggie, listen, it's not fun to lose. I have won and I have lost. but once you get through that period, the issues that kept us together and kept us on the campaign, that Hillary fought back, are moving forward. Health care, education. the stakes in the presidency are so great. win in the senate, the house, the white house. she told supporters, let's get going. Let's win this general election and move this country forward. [Video]
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HOST: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will make their first joint appearance since after the primaries. They'll host a rally in unity, New Hampshire. Hours after a private meeting with prominent Hillary Clinton supporters in Washington last night. Terry McAuliffe hosted that event and joins me live from the nation's capital. How did the event go last night? What was the upshot of it?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: We had about 300 people in this room represented about $230 million they raised for Hillary's campaign. Hillary introduced Barack. They got up there. There was a great feeling in the room. [Video]
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HOST: Have they buried all the bad feelings?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Llisten, we had 30 people there last night. This was our finance committee they had raised $230 million it was a great program we need all hands on deck. We have to move forward. It's about the issues and Ithink last night was the beginning for all of us, for the fall campaign, to get everybody energized and moving forward. [Video]
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MEREDITH: He [Congressman Clyburn] said he did speak with Clinton supporters yesterday about this. Were you one of those that he spoke with?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: No, I did not speak to Congressman Clyburn yesterday. We've been on the phone talking to superdelegates, which we've been doing the past couple of months.Two big contests today, Meredith, a huge win in Puerto Rico, and Kentucky before that, and West Virginia. Until someone has that magic number, we're going to continue to fight for literally those 17.5 million people.
MEREDITH: But, Terry, Senator Obama believes he has the magic number, that he has enough to clinch this nomination and is ready, perhaps tonight, to make a victory speech. Why do you laugh?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Go ahead and do it then. Put him out. if you've got the numbers, Meredith. I've been saying this for two months. When the president has declared this race over, go ahead and put the superdelegates out. I've been hearing it for several months. Every time they say this, Hillary has a huge win. She has received more votes than any candidate on either side, literally almost 18 million people. We've been in this 17 months. We get the number, we'll get the number. We're not there yet. We're still fighting and going forward until someone gets the number.[Video]
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"This does not unify the party, this crazy, cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan," Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, told reporters in San Juan yesterday.
The compromise on Florida and Michigan, however, did give Clinton an opening to count her victories in the two states as part of her unofficial popular vote total.
Today, she will begin airing a new TV ad in Montana and South Dakota touting the fact that she has received more votes - more than 17.6 million - than "any primary candidate in history." The ad carefully avoids declaring that Clinton has won a majority of the popular vote, an assertion disputed by the Obama campaign, in part because Clinton's count does not include several states where he won caucuses.
"The fact is that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have gotten more votes than any presidential campaign in primary history. We are, however, ahead in the popular vote now and will be ahead when all of the votes are counted Tuesday. That's not taking anything away from what she's accomplished, it's just a fact," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail.
Further, Burton said, the nomination is decided by which contender has the larger number of delegates, and "a majority of those delegates will soon be Senator Obama's."
The Illinois senator is favored in both the Montana and South Dakota primaries, which offer a combined 31 delegates.
McAuliffe said the campaign hoped to get a spike in contributions after yesterday's commanding win, and would decide its next move after tomorrow's final primaries.
"We're going to look at all our options. All our options are on the table," he said.
(http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/02/clinton_rolls_to_puerto_rico_win/)
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — While the Democratic Party was flirting with civil war, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spent her weekend in the relative fun and frolic of the Caribbean.
She danced to reggae-funk music on Friday night and spent the better part of Saturday partaking of a regional custom called caravan, in which she coursed through dense neighborhoods in the back of a pickup for six straight hours while waving, blowing kisses and bobbing to songs blaring from a 15-foot-high sound truck.
She broke from her regimen only to take phone calls from Harold Ickes, her point man in negotiations over the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations that were in the process of degenerating, on live television, in Washington.
“For me, it was a totally entrancing experience,” Mrs. Clinton said of the caravan in an interview on Sunday. The caravan was also a tidy reflection of the primary campaign itself: loud, winding and seemingly endless. And Mrs. Clinton was determined to keep rolling to the end as if she were on the precise course she had set for herself.
The juxtaposition was striking between Mrs. Clinton’s serene demeanor here on the island paradise and the bitterness back in the political swamp. “Give Bill a kiss for me,” one woman, Sonia Navas, yelled out to her from along the caravan route. “I’ll tell him it’s from you,” replied Mrs. Clinton, breezing by with a wave.
All the while, some supporters back in Washington were chanting “McCain ’08,” engaging in shoving matches with their Obama counterparts and vowing to take the fight all the way to the convention, in Denver.
Even as her party wondered how it would heal itself, Mrs. Clinton spent a leisurely Sunday at her beachside hotel, temperatures in the high 80s with a slight breeze. She visited a bakery, gave a few interviews, greeted local friends and worked on the speech she delivered at a rollicking celebration that followed her victory in Sunday’s Puerto Rico primary.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote in the general election, but that did not stop the celebration here. Mrs. Clinton danced on stage to music by Ricky Martin while her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, stood in the next room and railed at reporters about “this crazy cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/us/politics/02clinton.html?pagewanted=print)
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HARRY: You've go 175 uncommitted superdelegates left out there yet. Barack Obama only needs a quarter of those this week to wrap up the nomination. So?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: We know it's an uphill climb, but if you look at the results yesterday, Puerto Rico we won by 142,000 votes.
HARRY: In a weak contest where not so many people showed up.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: 400,000. That's more than 90% of the 17 caucuses that were held in states around the country, Harry. I would argue differently. 400,000 people showed up. It was 100% hispanic caucus. Hillary won by more than 2-1. [Video]
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MIKA: And, joining us now, Clinton Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe looking very good in his Hawaiian shirt or maybe Puerto Rico shirt.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Puerto Rico. I just got back at 2:00 this morning, and Mika, Ii want you to know, I brought you back your own bottle of Bacardi Gold from Puerto Rico. You and I are going to share this together and celebrate another big win by Hillary Clinton.
MIKA: Oh okay! I'm ready for that Terry, I'm ready.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: And good news, tomorrow night we are going to have Hillary Clinton's celebration in New York so I will be with her, Iwill be on set with you Wednesday morning, in person.[Video]
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(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358064,00.html)
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Joining us now, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign, Terry McAuliffe. And welcome back to "FOX News Sunday."
MCAULIFFE: Great to be here, Chris.
WALLACE: Before we get to the rules fight, I want to ask you about Senator Clinton's comment Friday about staying in the Democratic race. Here it is.
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CLINTON: My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know, I just — I don't understand it.
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WALLACE: Why would she make any mention of assassination in the midst of a campaign?
MCAULIFFE: Well, what she was talking about was the time line. Everyone has told her to get out of the race. She has said, "I'm not getting out of the race, nor should I get out of the race," and she was referring to the time line, how these events have gone into June.
It's happened in the past. I mean, she had made a very similar statement, as you know, in Time Magazine in March. Nobody said anything about it. It's unfortunate. The people on the editorial board didn't misinterpret it at all. Robert F. Kennedy Junior issued a statement. He didn't misinterpret it at all.
But it's unfortunate. A hyped-up press over Memorial Day weekend — the Obama campaign inflaming it, tried to take these words out of context. She was making a point merely about the time line.
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358064,00.html)
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NORAH: Joining us, Terri McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign. Thank you for joining us. Despite Hillary Clinton's big win in Kentucky last night the headlines all read that Barack Obama lays claim to a majority of pledged delegates. Just how difficult is it now for Hillary Clinton to secure the nomination?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Well, they have been talking about that for a while. Only one number matters to all of us, to get the magic number, to be the nominee, Senator Obama is not there, we're not there, it goes on. What you saw last night contrary to what the tv commentators have been saying that the race is over, the biggest vote turnout in Kentucky and Oregon, Hillary won Kentucky by 250,000 votes. We netted another 150,000 votes towards the popular vote. We're up for the popular vote out of 144 delegates. Tthe difference is less than 200. Who is the best to go into the general election? - the race continues. [Video]
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Hanging Tough - With odds against her, what is Hillary Clinton's Strategy? Terry McAuliffe weighs in. [Video]
STEVE: Even though he's going to support John McCain, Clint Eastwood is telling Hillary Clinton to move in there. Tthis is good news toTerry McAuliffe. He joins us from our D.C. bureau. Good morning, Terry. >> Good Morning.
STEVE: Congratulations, by the way, yesterday. when you look at the results out of Kentucky where she beat him by 35 points, proves your point that she should stay in it till the end?
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Sure, we won by over 250,000 votes, as you know, it was a record vote turnout in both Kentucky and Oregon, the voters liked us, she keeps winner, and i've said you want Hillary out of the race, then try and beat her. Why can't Senator Obama close the deal? The reason is people want to see this race go on. They like her talk about the economy, they think she'll fight for them, and they're sick and tired of people on tv saying the race is over and the voters saying no, it isn't. We're going to fight for her.
STEVE: Regarding Kentucky, it's very good news for John McCain and very bad news for Barack Obama. Only one-third of Hillary's supporters would vote for Barack over John McCain.
TERRY MCAULIFFE: Well, Steve, right now we're in the middle of a huge primary battle. The tensions are high. we're all slugging it out. It's an exciting time. Once this process is over, people will come together, but right now we're at the height. People are angry over Florida, they're angry over Michigan, they don't want to see these folks disenfranchises, Hillary keeps winning, and yet people say get out of the race. No one is getting out of the race. People will believe me, i've been saying this for months, we only have 13 days to go, nobody is getting out until they have the magic number, 2,210. until that happens, we're in, we're fighting, but once it happens, we'll be together. [Video]
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"...Keeping you up to the minute on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton made one thing crystal clear in her West Virginia victory speech. She is not dropping out anytime soon. For a sense of what's going on inside team Clinton's inner circle, let's get right to Clinton campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe." [Video]
W. Virginia is crucial turning point for Hillary Clinton.[Video] "..about that argument, Terry, West Virginia's only five electoral votes, republicans, as you pointed out have won that state in the past two general elections. Isn't it a little bit fuzzy math if you will, to suggest it has to be in the democratic column in order to win the White House?" [Video]
Senator Hillary Clinton is expected to win a huge victory in tomorrow's primary in west virginia. Her chances of winning the democratic nomination, however, appear slim tonight, but she isn't dropping out of the race. Joining me now from Washington her campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe. [Video]
(http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20080418/news/804180327/1005)
Lexington was the fifth stop on a six-city tour for Terry McAuliffe, the national campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, promoting the first day of early voting for the May 6 primary across the state.
A handful of Clinton supporters gathered in the parking lot of the Davidson County Board of Elections office Thursday afternoon to greet McAuliffe and other Clinton campaign officials. McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman from 2001 to 2005, chatted in Lexington for about 30 minutes before moving on to Greensboro, the last leg of the tour.
"I'm here in North Carolina, obviously a big state for us, we've got Pennsylvania coming up in five days - she's ahead in the polls there. Then of course we come to Indiana and North Carolina, very important to us here," McAuliffe said.
According to a Tuesday poll from the InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research, Sen. Barack Obama is leading Clinton in North Carolina by a 51.1 percent to 36.4 percent count, with 12.5 percent of Democrats surveyed undecided. Another poll from the American Research Group released Wednesday shows Obama garnering 52 percent of Democrats' preference compared to Clinton with 41 percent.
When asked how Clinton will close the gap with Obama before the primary election in North Carolina, McAuliffe said a win in Pennsylvania on Tuesday could provide Clinton with added momentum to take other states including Indiana and North Carolina. McAuliffe said voters will realize Clinton has won the states with the large electoral college votes - California, Florida, Texas, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Michigan, states that will be vital to win in the general election...(http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20080418/news/804180327/1005)
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(http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/04/17/233403)
6,000 miles in the air. 24 hours on the road. Sun, clouds, rain, snow, mountains and volcanoes. Opening five new Oregon for Hillary Offices? Priceless.
It’s all thanks to our incredible volunteers and supporters who have graciously opened up their wallets and come together online to help us unlock the doors to hundreds of campaign offices nationwide. Thank you!
While Oregon’s primary is a month away, Hillary’s campaign has been quickly ramping up an incredible organization out here. As it is two weeks until ballots are mailed out there is still much to get done.
Because of you, over the last two days we were able to cut the ribbon to our Beaverton, Salem, Springfield, Bend and Medford, Oregon for Hillary offices. While I was grounded in Chicago at 7:00 a.m. due to a busted airplane engine, I was luckily able to catch the next flight to Oregon. Unfortunately, it caused me to miss our Beaverton office opening, however I was able to make it to Salem, Springfield, Bend, and Medford. Our impressive organization in the Beaver state pulled off fantastic events, led by our exceptional State Director, Clay Haynes.
When I arrived in Salem over 50 enthusiastic supporters were ready to take action for Hillary. As I walked into the room, I immediately felt the energy and momentum our campaign has in Oregon.
The next three stops of the tour had me traveling all across the state -- to Springfield, Bend and Medford. Our office in Springfield is just across the freeway from the home of the Oregon Ducks and it was in there where I ran into the greatest volunteer I have met on this campaign – Grace Fuss... (http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/04/17/233403)
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