Clinton’s Lead Shrinks After Debate

by Stephan Tawney on November 7, 2007

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By about a third. Bryan points to responses by her fellow contenders regarding Billy’s calling the questioning “swift boating”.

On Monday, in defense of his wife against political critics, Bill Clinton cited the “swift boat” television ads of the 2004 presidential campaign that questioned John Kerry’s patriotism and the campaign commercials in 2002 that suggested Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia was soft on terrorism.

Obama told The Associated Press he was “stunned” to hear Clinton make the comparison…

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, another candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, called the Clintons’ response to the debate “outrageous.”

“To have the former president come out and suggest this is a form of swift boating … is way over the top in my view,” Dodd said in a telephone interview…

According to the same article, a senior Clinton adviser says several advisers viewed Billy’s move as counterproductive.

Of course, this hardly counts her out – it simply leads her vulnerable to Obama. But even that is debatable. I wouldn’t exactly fall out of my chair if two weeks from now we’re sitting her reading that she’s regained her lead. It’s the Clinton machine, and it isn’t going away.



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