Monday, January 14, 2008

Hillary's lukewarm reception in New York

Ben Smith, Politico

Hillary's speech to a labor rally on behalf of largely black security guards in Manhattan this afternoon offered a clear sense of the challenge she faces wooing black voters -- even in her adoptive home of New York.

Clinton's introduction was met with applause, but also with a few boos, and her speech was received largely in silence, with occasional, polite applause, one round of which came when she hailed "the day when a woman and an African-American are running for the presidency of the United States of America." A man near me called out "Obama" at a couple points in her talk.

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