After slapping Holy Joe, Hillary Clinton is moving quickly to woo netroots by bringing up their favourite topic - Ohio voting fraud.
Clinton hits popular themes at conference
When Nov. 7 rolls around, Ohioans should "watch this election like a hawk," Sen. Hillary Clinton said at a Columbus conference yesterday.
"Don't let them pull anything over your eyes again," Clinton said, apparently referring to voting and vote-counting disputes that erupted in Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.
Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York, wife of the former president and a potential presidential candidate herself in 2008, wowed a standing-room-only crowd at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now convention in Ohio State University's Mershon Auditorium.
While not mentioning him by name, Clinton also took a swing at J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican candidate for governor and, as secretary of state, the state's chief vote-counter.
"I find it amazing that one of the people running for high office is running the election. That should not be permitted," she said.
To "get America back on track," Democrats must win a majority in either the U.S. House or Senate, she said, or "we won't be able to stop the agenda of the right-wing Republicans, the Bush Republicans in Washington."
The minimum-wage story was personal to Julie Smith, a mother of three and ACORN member from Ohio who spoke at the conference.
She said that raising Ohio's minimum wage to $6.85 from the current $5.15 per hour, as proposed in a constitutional amendment likely to appear on the Nov. 7 ballot, would mean an extra $50 in paychecks.
"That $50 a week doesn't mean that much to people who earn $50,000 a year, but it could be the difference between hope and hopelessness," Smith said.
Don't underestimate Hillary. She is extremely smart. She knows how to use rhetoric to woo back netroots without making concession on key issue such as Iraq.