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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 27, 2008 12:41am |
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| News Date | Sunday, January 27, 2008 06:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Twenty years ago, Patricia Moseley and her college friends campaigned throughout this region for George H.W. Bush, with his son by her side.
She says she still loves the Bush family, but because she "is just ready for a change," she spent yesterday knocking on doors in this mostly Republican county to boost a presidential candidate of different stripes — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
In his victory speech last night, Mr. Obama said Ms. Moseley is just the type of voter he needs to reach in order to capture enough delegates to beat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for their party's nomination.
"When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner-city children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign," he said. "Don't tell me we can't change."
Mrs. Clinton has her own microtargeting, and the campaign already has dispatched the candidate and former President Bill Clinton to key states that vote Feb. 5, including Tennessee and Missouri. To reach Hispanic voters, the Clinton team is hosting bilingual phone banks, and she is raking in endorsements from Hispanic leaders who remind voters of her work with the Children's Defense Fund decades ago.
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