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Written by Leigh Ann Caldwell   
Monday, 21 April 2008 12:00

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.

April 21 - Feature
produced by Leigh Ann Caldwell
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And the campaign is gaining in intensity.

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.

Harrisburg PA Clinton Event 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.

Thanks to Don DeBar and Fred Nguyen at WBAI for sound of Cynthia McKinney.

Election Unspun is Produced by Karen Miller.

 

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