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Article: November battle lines being drawn ; Obama, McCain redirect their focus, ignore Clinton
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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Barack Obama has begun ignoring Hillary Clinton on the stump,
made plans to visit general-election battlegrounds, and launched a
50-state voter registration program to build his base for November.
John McCain has shelved his blueprint for running a general
election campaign against Clinton, turned his fire squarely on
Obama, and begun coordinating with the Republican Party about how to
beat the Illinois senator in the fall.
Even as Clinton fights on in hopes of beating Obama to the
Democratic nomination, the tenor of the presidential campaign has
changed following Obama's big win in North Carolina last week and
his surpassing Clinton in the race for superdelegates. In tactics
and in message, ...