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To: bentway who wrote (366979)	1/15/2008 11:57:39 AM
From: longnshort	of 1571172

Hillary's ploy "It may not be easy to tell now, but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have a lot in common," Richard Wolffe and Karen Springen write in Newsweek. "One example: they're both strongly pro-choice. Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League have awarded each of them perfect 100 percent scores for opposing abortion restrictions. So Democrats in New Hampshire might have been a bit surprised when Clinton began criticizing Obama for not being pro-choice enough. 'A woman's right to choose demands a leader who will stand up and protect it,' read a mailing sent out to Democrats in the state on the eve of last week's primary. "Without giving details, the flier knocked Obama for votes he cast years ago on several anti-abortion bills when he was an Illinois state senator. Along with a [bloc] of other Democrats, Obama had voted 'present' instead of 'no' — a maneuver intended to rob Republicans of fodder to use against them in campaign attack ads. (A vote of present essentially counted as a no, since a bill needed a majority of affirmative votes to pass.) "The anti-abortion measures failed. Still, the Clinton mailing featured a sidelong picture of Obama alongside the words UNWILLING TO TAKE A STAND ON CHOICE; Clinton smiles sweetly at the camera. The mailing found its mark. Obama canvassers reported that people around the state had started asking them about the candidate's record on abortion. "In the days after his Iowa win, Obama and his advisers believed they could ride a wave of good will through New Hampshire and beyond. But they underestimated the power of Clinton's war room in full crisis mode. Clinton didn't win there simply because she teared up. Obama was outmaneuvered by her superior organization in the state, and overwhelmed by a barrage of carefully aimed criticisms intended to raise doubts about Obama's central claim as a candidate — that he is a change agent, a lifelong reformer who will heal Washington by bringing together feuding politicians of both parties."

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