Apr. 21, Feature - The Pennsylvania primary is just one day away. With 158 delegates
at stake, both Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama have spent the last few days
here.
Hillary Clinton is hoping to pull
out a huge win that she hopes will save her struggling campaign while Obama
is hoping his efforts to cut into her lead in the state will marginalize her.
Hillary Clinton in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley in Central Pennsylvania
directly challenged Obama.
So while my opponent says one thing and his
campaign does another, you can count on me to tell
you where I stand.
Clinton was attempting to portray Obama as untrustworthy, something that resonates
with Clinton supporters in this small rural town.
Retired Engineer Barry Misimer.
John McCain. I don't like him, I don't like him at all. No because, well for one thing, my job sent me over to Indonesia already,
and he grew up there and they hate Americans.
Fears of a fractured Democratic party seemed possible by speaking
to voters at campaign stops. Just as some Clinton supporters wouldn't vote
for Obama, the same holds true in the opposite situation.
Sisters Joann and Karen Olorosky
Never, never, never. I'd go to McCain. I'll go with McCain. I don't trust her. It's as simple as that, I don't trust
her and I don't trust her husband.
Despite focusing on Obama, Clinton received the loudest
applause over an issue that hit home with the audience in the gym of a high
school.
Later Sunday evening in Scranton, a depressed
former coal town in Northwest Pennsylvania, Obama promised a unified Democratic
party.
That's why Democrats will be unified in their convention in August
and that's why Democrats will be unified in November.
But Obama continued through
the rest of his speech challenging Clinton's credentials.
I want you to
understand the choice you have Tuesday, her basic message is we can't really
change politics, because we can't really change it, we might as well elect
someone who can play the game. I know how it works.
Meanwhile, Green Party candidates
also spent some time in Pennsylvania over the weekend, not for Tuesday's primary,
but for a rally in support of death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal who was charged
for the death of a Philadelphia police officer in the 1970's.
There was no room inside the Democratic Party
nor the Republican Party nor the halls of power for people who want truth,
and peace and justice. And thank goodness, twenty years ago, some people
had the wisdom to create a new party, where people who share our values can
call home - and that is the Green Party"
Candidates
will campaign in Western Pennsylvania Monday.
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