In Nevada Former President Clinton said Monday that the U.S. economy "is in the tank" and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a better grasp than John McCain of how to deal with the issue.
Hillary Clinton campaigned for Obama in Florida on Monday. Hillary Clinton will hold a public rally for Barack Obama's presidential campaign this Tuesday evening at Memorial Arena in Hibbing. Barack Obama will leave the White House trail later this week to head to the side of his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, just 11 days before the election.
Faithful Hillary Clinton supporters gathered in a light drizzle Monday for a rally in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Monday afternoon, part of a statewide kickoff for early voting pushed by the Barack Obama campaign.
The Democratic event, which included U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings Jr. and Robert Wexler and Mark Caldwell, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Fort Lauderdale, brought out roughly 2,400 people, according to the Obama campaign.
Clinton told the cheering attendees that she remains grateful for their support in the primaries, but it's time to tell undecided friends and
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Bill Clinton finished working the audience at Chaparral High School not long ago after speaking for about 30 minutes to a crowd the Obama campaign estimated at 2,500 people.
He joked that, with a little more than two weeks left before Election Day, he and Reid had to be careful they didn’t say or do anything to reduce Obama’s lead over Sen. John McCain. "The other side is making some Hail Mary passes," Clinton said.
Clinton’s remarks were largely of the nuts-and-bolts variety though, as he devoted much time to the economic crisis and the country’s health care system.
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Sen. Barack Obama will cancel his presidential campaign stops and return here Thursday and Friday to visit his maternal grandmother who raised him, the woman he calls "Toot," whose health has suddenly deteriorated.
Madelyn Dunham, 85, recently had to be hospitalized after a fall, and "things have taken a serious turn," said Obama supporter Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii. "It's an accumulation of several difficulties. She's faced a lot of challenges.
"Things have taken a serious enough turn for Sen. Obama to come home," Abercrombie said. "It's his family. Everyone understands what's going on. The campaign is secondary. The campaign has its own velocity, its own trajectory."
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Democrat Barack Obama has opened an 8-point lead over Republican John McCain two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
Obama leads McCain 50 percent to 42 percent among likely U.S. voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, up from a 6-point advantage for Obama on Monday. The telephone poll has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.
"It was another very big day for Obama," said pollster John Zogby. "Things clearly are moving in Obama's direction."
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