Clinton Now Under Pressure To Bounce Back Against Foes

NY Sun ^ | November 14, 2007 | RUSSELL BERMAN

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WASHINGTON — The pressure will be on Senator Clinton at the Democratic presidential debate tomorrow as she tries to bounce back from a weak performance last month that has cut into her lead in the polls.

Her top rivals, Senator Obama and John Edwards, head into the Las Vegas forum confident that their increased criticism in recent weeks finally has begun to inflict damage on Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which had seemed unstoppable earlier in the fall.

Messrs. Obama and Edwards have painted her as a creature of a corrupt corporate culture in Washington who is more concerned about her political standing than she is about principles, and that image has been fed in recent days by disclosures that the Clinton campaign has "planted" questioners at two of its town-hall forums in Iowa.

Acknowledging that the dynamic of the race has shifted, Mrs. Clinton is using the attacks as a fund-raising tool. Her campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, yesterday sent out a missive to supporters urgently seeking donations in a bid to raise $1 million by the start of the debate tomorrow night.

"The campaign has changed," Ms. Solis Doyle wrote at the top of the e-mail.

[avacado]

She’s gonna choke! She can’t handle it. The Witch is going to have a meltdown.

[quark]

(4) Boxers or briefs...?

BRIEFS:

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Obama: "When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it’s easier to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them."

Touche!

[COgamer]

These stories are ridiculous. Bounce back from what? She’s still at 43%. Obama and Edwards are at 20% or less. Clinton is going to be the nominee, and the media attempting to create an illusion that it’ll be close just isn’t working. We need to continue focusing, as we have been, on a race between our nominee and Clinton. The best we can hope for, given that she’s the Democrat who polls the worst out of the sorry lot of them.

[Grampa Dave]