Clinton campaigns in Reno
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., addressed nearly 2,000 people at a campaign rally in the Grand Sierra Resort on Friday evening, a day before Nevada’s earliest presidential caucus in state history.
Clinton detailed many of her policy changes – from expanding health care to all Americans to a plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq within 60 days of her inauguration.
She did not, however, mention Sen. Barack Obama, who earlier in the day in the Virginia Street Gym at the University of Nevada, Reno attacked Clinton by name in a campaign speech.
She painted herself as the most electable and experienced candidate, labeling the other Democratic front-runners, Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, as “the other side.”
“There’s a second question that Democrats and like-minded Independents and a lot of Republicans who are finished with what they have seen in the White House over the last years and that is: Who can win in November 2008?” she said.
Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, introduced Clinton saying she could “walk into the White House on day one and know what to do and how to do it.”
A recent Las Vegas Review Journal poll has Clinton in the lead with 41 percent of the vote, compared to Obama’s 32 percent and Edwards’ 14 percent.
Despite the poll numbers, Nevada’s three largest newspapers, the Review Journal, the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Elko Daily Free Press, have endorsed Obama.
She said she would make college more affordable for students by providing them with a $3,500 tax credit. She said she would also create a national service program that would pay for their education.
“If you do public service – teach, be a nurse, be a firefighter, be a police officer – we will forgive your debt,” she said.
Clinton lambasted the Bush Administration for taking a $5.6 trillion surplus at the end of her husband’s term as president then turning it in to a $9 trillion deficit. She said she would bring “fiscal responsibility” back to the White House.
“I’m ready to serve and lead if you’re ready to stand with me,” she said. “We will together make history.”
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January 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
This area is too republican for a woman still. It is not right but it is the unfortunate reality of the Reno area.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Looks like you were wrong. It is Hillary! Wow!