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Article: Clinton Campaign and Surrogates Hit Obama on Voting Record.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2007
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Frustrated by what they regard as press under-attention to negative storylines about Barack Obama, the Clinton campaign is absolutely committed to taking Obama to task on the non-committal "present" votes he cast as a state senator in Illinois.
As expected, that was the message to come out of a Clinton campaign conference call on Dec. 20 in which the Clinton press team and some surrogates used the votes to attack Obama's courage, ambition and experience.
Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio started by mocking Mr. Obama for his "present" votes.
"Yes or no should be an easy answer," she said, adding that the reason the campaign was so focused on this issue was ...