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New finance reports show Clinton campaign lacking funds
Ewen MacAskill in Harrisburg and Daniel Nasaw in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Monday April 21 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/hillaryclinton.barackobama

Hillary Clinton's campaign began the month of April virtually broke, owing more money than it had in the bank, it emerged yesterday.

Federal campaign finance reports show her rival Barack Obama's campaign remains flush with cash even as he outspent Clinton by nearly a third in March.

The divergent financial reports, came as relations between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reached a new low at the weekend with a series of increasingly destructive exchanges and "attack" ads ahead of tomorrow's Pennsylvania primary, the last big contest of the Democratic party's 15-month presidential nomination campaign.

The two camps now routinely swap personal criticism to a degree rarely seen when the battle for Pennsylvania began seven weeks ago.

Obama, abandoning his stance as a candidate standing above the fray, claimed that Clinton had adopted a "slash and burn" strategy in the knowledge that she was no longer able to win.

A retired general and Obama supporter, Walter Stewart, told reporters that, because of Clinton's lie about being under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia, she would lack the "moral authority" as president to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications chief, described it as the "most outrageous attack of the campaign". The Obama campaign distanced itself from the remark.

As the race enters the final hours before polls open in Pennsylvania, the Clinton camp finds itself in perilous financial condition.

According to a report filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission, at the end of March the campaign owed $10.3m but had only $9.3m available to spend on the primary election. The campaign owes $4.6m to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, a polling firm of which Clinton strategist Mark Penn is a principal figure.

Penn, a long-time Clinton aide and once a chief strategic hand for her presidential campaign, faced a demotion earlier this month after it emerged that he had met with Colombian officials on a controversial trade agreement, even as Clinton opposes the deal.

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When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

Dem voter surge could cut Clinton margin
By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 4/21/08 4:29 AM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9735.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9735.html

An historic spike in Democratic voter registrations in Pennsylvania could help Barack Obama cut into Hillary Clinton’s vote in Tuesday’s primary, robbing her of the big victory margin she needs to justify continuing the primary fight.

The changing party demographics also are contributing to an overall bluing of the Keystone State that could dim Republican John McCain’s hopes of competing there in the fall.

A county-by-county analysis by Politico suggests that the hard-fought primary between Obama and Clinton has accelerated an ongoing partisan shift in Pennsylvania that could soon move it out of the battleground presidential states and ripple across congressional races this fall, as well.

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