Posted on 01/06/2008 9:47:32 PM PST by jdm
BRENTWOOD, New Hampshire In an exclusive interview with MTV News here, former president Bill Clinton admitted Senator Hillary Clinton and her campaign made a mistake in underestimating the youth vote in Iowa where Barack Obama won the Democratic caucus last week but said the same thing won't happen in New Hampshire.
"I think historically young people have not voted in the Iowa caucus because they are from other states," the former president told MTV News on Saturday night. "This time we had a lot of students who did come back and I think, frankly, thousands and thousands of them came back from Illinois to support Senator Obama, and they had a very aggressive outreach. And we haven't made that mistake here; we've reached out to young people here and I think we just have to keep trying."
And she'll need to keep trying to court the crucial youth vote until the citizens of New Hampshire vote on Tuesday: While polls on Saturday showed similar numbers for Clinton and rival Barack Obama, a CNN/WMUR poll on Sunday (January 6) found Obama opening up a wide lead approximately 10 points at press time.
Even though most of the young voters who turned out in Iowa caucused for his wife's rival, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton is still thrilled that so many young people stood up to be counted, and he thinks he knows why.
"I think they know they have a big stake in this," he said. "I think they want us to address climate change. I think they want America to be respected and supported in the world again and I think they really didn't like the feeling they've had for the last seven years and they want their future to be brighter. I don't think it is very complicated."
Clinton has been on the campaign trail in New Hampshire for his wife, showing up at events across the state with and without her. Hillary Clinton was preparing for a debate when we caught up with the former president. He made a prepared speech to an over-capacity crowd of a few hundred Hillary supporters, fans of Bill and curious onlookers before answering questions and signing autographs for almost an hour.
"I love these town hall meetings," he said with a smile that hinted back to the former glory of his own days on the trail but then said he wouldn't want to do it all over again.
"Not at all! I'm just happy to help her. I had my eight years and I did the best I could and I'm very grateful. And if people elect her I'll do whatever I can to help her. But she is the best candidate for president I have ever had the chance to vote for both because of the variety of things she's done to help people in their lives and the good she's done and the experience she's had. She's very well suited for this moment in time, so it is fun for me to be campaigning for her."
"I think historically young people have not voted in the Iowa caucus because they are from other states," the former president told MTV News on Saturday night. "This time we had a lot of students who did come back and I think, frankly, thousands and thousands of them came back from Illinois to support Senator Obama, and they had a very aggressive outreach. And we haven't made that mistake here; we've reached out to young people here and I think we just have to keep trying."
And she'll need to keep trying to court the crucial youth vote until the citizens of New Hampshire vote on Tuesday: While polls on Saturday showed similar numbers for Clinton and rival Barack Obama, a CNN/WMUR poll on Sunday (January 6) found Obama opening up a wide lead approximately 10 points at press time.
Even though most of the young voters who turned out in Iowa caucused for his wife's rival, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton is still thrilled that so many young people stood up to be counted, and he thinks he knows why.
"I think they know they have a big stake in this," he said. "I think they want us to address climate change. I think they want America to be respected and supported in the world again and I think they really didn't like the feeling they've had for the last seven years and they want their future to be brighter. I don't think it is very complicated."
Clinton has been on the campaign trail in New Hampshire for his wife, showing up at events across the state with and without her. Hillary Clinton was preparing for a debate when we caught up with the former president. He made a prepared speech to an over-capacity crowd of a few hundred Hillary supporters, fans of Bill and curious onlookers before answering questions and signing autographs for almost an hour.
"I love these town hall meetings," he said with a smile that hinted back to the former glory of his own days on the trail but then said he wouldn't want to do it all over again.
"Not at all! I'm just happy to help her. I had my eight years and I did the best I could and I'm very grateful. And if people elect her I'll do whatever I can to help her. But she is the best candidate for president I have ever had the chance to vote for both because of the variety of things she's done to help people in their lives and the good she's done and the experience she's had. She's very well suited for this moment in time, so it is fun for me to be campaigning for her."
It's all about making the Hillary! supporters feel better about cheating. That is why the 'Rats are always talking up the possiblity of Republican vote fraud just before every general election. They know that they count on massive numbers of individual voters choosing to commit vote fraud, and they have to convince these voters that by doing so, they are just making up for somebody else's cheating.
Even frauds have to live with themselves...
The only thing missing is a description of the "journalist's" crush on Clinton.
Really, it's kind of funny, it a tragic sort of way.
Suffice to say Obama's got some pretty big hurdles to get around in the next 11 months.
Prayers for his safety. Can't stand his policies, don't want him hurt...
The answer is simple. If MTV wants their audience to get interested in one candidate or the other, they just need to get Obama and Clinton (the alleged feminine one) in front of their cameras to answer the underwear question.
lol
Seems not too far from suggesting that Obama’s team imported corrupt voting practices from Illinois.
End game. Obama Vs. Romney. IMHO.
Face it, Bubba. It’s not that she won’t make that mistake again. It’s that she CAN’T. There’s only one you to marry.
Everyone says she’s toast.
What’s she gonna do when she gets REALLY desperate??
Blaming the kids now for Iowans’ wholesale rejection of Hillary. Nice.
lol and the count proves it - meantime, Bill’s ‘I’s are amazing to behold. . .his ego, historic and sized for history.
LOL! I think it was Real Clear Politics that ran a short story on Billyboy speaking at one of sHrillery's campaign events in Iowa recently. IIRC, he said "I" something like 97 times in a five minute speech, but only mentioned her Thyness twice.....
It's all about Hillary dontchaknow.....
Just think, if she fails to get the "coronation" we'll be done with the era of Clinton for good. Man, that is one mighty fine thought to start off a Monday morning.....
The only category she won was the 60-something women, according to the election night pundits.
That being said, I got a HUGE kick out of the news I was hearing here in Illinois the next day to the effect that one of the news stations had a quote by Daniel Hynes, who had run in the 2004 primary against Obama for the US Senate.
Hynes went to IA to campaign for Obama in this recent caucus and was quoted as saying that he visited a caucus site shortly before it opened and was surprised to find himself in line with a bunch of Republicans and Independents all enthused about voting for Obama.
That comment about made me fall out of my chair.
Were those voters voting FOR Obama or eagerly crossing over and voting AGAINST Hillary? My guess would be the latter.
This begs the question of whether the Edwards (union) vote would go to Obama or Hillary once he leaves.
No, Edwards is in his 50's (and I swear I saw him "bristle" when he was asked the question about "relative youth" at the last debate)
The point I was trying to make is that Bill and Hill came into power as the the "young, fresh, hip" leaders of tomorrow. And just like the jock or beauty queen in high school whose popularity was fleeting because they never really accomplished anything of substance, they are still looking back longingly at those "good old days", trying to suck in the spare tire and squeeze into the girdle hoping that no one will notice that they're no longer young and appealing.
In trying to "appeal to the younger vote", I would not be surprised to see the tone-deaf Hillary! in a photo op getting a tattoo.
“It’s even more subtle than that: it’s a call for Massachusetts students to drive north an hour to vote in New Hampshire. (NH has same-day voter registration).”
You caught me with my super-Clinton-disgronification device temporarily inoperative. OF COURSE. Everything said is a calculated message. I missed that one. Thanks.
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