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Article: Obama, Clinton Return to North Dakota
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- April 5, 2008
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Two months after North Dakota's primary, the state's Democratic party still managed to attract Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the opening day of its convention Friday.
"Some people think the Democrats can't win in North Dakota, so we shouldn't put too much time in here," Obama told a crowd of more than 15,000. "I tell you what, we didn't fly over North Dakota. We landed."
Clinton, who spoke an hour later, pledged to stand up for middle- and working-class voters in that state and elsewhere.
"Tonight, somewhere in North Dakota and across America, janitors are cleaning up, waitresses are pouring coffee, police officers are standing guard. ...