Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama

Source: Washington Post, Page One


By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 3, 2007; Page A01

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. 2 -- With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character, challenging his integrity and forecasting a sharp debate over those subjects in the days ahead.

Clinton has hammered Obama recently over his health-care proposal, arguing that he is misleading voters because it omits millions of people and would not lower costs. But Sunday, in a dramatic shift, she made it clear that her goal is to challenge Obama not just on policy but also on one of his strongest selling points: his reputation for honesty.

"There's a big difference between our courage and our convictions, what we believe and what we're willing to fight for," Clinton told reporters here. She said voters in Iowa will have a choice "between someone who talks the talk, and somebody who's walked the walk." Asked directly whether she intended to raise questions about Obama's character, she replied: "It's beginning to look a lot like that."

The Obama campaign quickly fought back, and the candidate himself called the new effort a sign of desperation. A new Des Moines Register poll released Sunday finds Clinton three points behind Obama, within the poll's margin of error, among likely Democratic caucusgoers....

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The new Clinton strategy, acknowledged by her senior advisers as an intentional pivot, carries significant risks and could produce a potential backlash if voters perceive her as growing too negative. The Register's poll also found that Clinton was seen by Iowa voters as the most negative of the Democratic contenders....

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She knows Obama could very well run away with both Iowa and New Hampshire, and if he does, her campaign is over.

she knows now her name is not going to carry her anymore and she has to slug it out...it`s going to be interesting

She may finally be learning she is not "entitled to the thrown"....

the one in iowa thought that the hillary `s staff planting the questions hurt her with the student vote. just how bad the damage is really an unknown at this time.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


Obama puts up a website where he attacks Hillary Clinton and the Obama groupies say Hillary is starting attacks. Damn how much more can they get to be like republicans....

try again...