Clinton’s last minute push
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She started her day greeting auto workers on the early morning shift at a Jeep assembly plant outside Toledo and doing about a dozen interviews via satellite with TV stations in Ohio and Texas.
On the eve of the primaries in four states that are expected to decide the fate of her candidacy for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is stumping from the snows of northern Ohio to the heat of South Texas.
At a mid-morning Clinton rally held at the University of Toledo, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland introduced her as “the comeback kid.’’ The college is on recess this week and only a few students showed up for the event. The audience of about 500 was dominated by union members, including more than two busloads of members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees from Detroit who are knocking on doors and making phone calls in northern Ohio.
Clinton then did a fly-in at an airplane hanger in Beaumont, Texas. Several members of the audience said in interviews they expect Clinton to do well in this city along the Gulf Coast because of its significant Hispanic population and large blue-collar workforce at area refineries.
The New York senator plans an electronic town hall tonight linking major cities in Texas, using a format similar to the electronic town hall she did from Manattan on Super Tuesday.
Clinton campaign officials declined in a conference call this morning to say what she will do should she lose in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday. Rhode Island and Vermont, the other two states with primaries Tuesday, are considered less critical to the future of the race.
Communications Director Howard Wolfson declined to predict victory in Ohio and Texas, but indicated he was optimistic about the outcome.
“I have avoided making Namath-esque predictions throughout this campaign,’’ said Wolfson, referring to the New York Jets quarterback who brashly predicted a victory by his underdog team in Superbowl III.
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