Two Days Before Primaries in Indiana & North Carolina
Two Days Before Critical Primaries — Posted by Catherine Morgan
How is Tuesday going to turn out? Will the Wright story still weigh on the Obama campaign? Will Hillary gain momentum? What do you think?
From The Washington Post…
SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 4 — Two days before critical primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) scolded both Sen. Barack Obama (D) and “elite opinion” Sunday for opposing her proposals to fix the ailing economy, while the senator from Illinois accused her of political pandering.
“There’s a big difference between us, and the question is: Who understands what you’re going through, and who do you count on being on your side?” Clinton said to several hundred supporters in Fort Wayne. “I believe I have what it takes to stand up and fight for you when you need a president on your side.”
Obama appeared to acknowledge that Clinton’s populist economic message is finding a receptive audience in Indiana when he called for a second round of government tax rebates. “Let me tell you something, people are really hurting,” Obama said during his own appearance in Fort Wayne. “I am here to tell you, you’re not on your own. We’re in this together.”
The two scoured the state before a primary that Obama last month called the “tiebreaker” in the Democratic contest. He is hoping that victories here and in North Carolina would build pressure on Clinton to exit the race for the party’s nomination, and both candidates are betting that their rhetoric on the economy — Obama insisting voters will reject easy answers, Clinton with her proposals for short-term relief — will give them an edge Tuesday.
