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Posted by LeftCoast in Latest Breaking News
Thu May 08th 2008, 02:51 PM
Source: LA Times

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As talk swirled this morning over when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should end her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, her campaign chairman predicted the party would have a presumptive nominee in June and, if it's not Clinton, she would campaign for Sen. Barack Obama.

The comments by Terry McAuliffe seemed aimed at persuading superdelegates and Democratic Party leaders that Clinton would not hurt party unity by pressing her campaign through the final June 3 primaries in Montana and South Dakota.

"She can win the states we need to win in the general election," McAuliffe said on NBC's "Today" show. "Until there is a nominee with the number of necessary delegates, why should she get out?"

Here in Charleston, Clinton told several hundred supporters in the marble-lined dome of the state Capitol that pressure is growing from party leaders and pundits for her to drop out of the race.

Read more: www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campai...



Looks like that's it for this race.
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