WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton shed tears on Monday for a second time in this election campaign only 24 hours before heading into a coast-to-coast contest with Barack Obama that has split the Democratic party down the middle.

As both candidates embarked on a frantic final bout of campaigning along the East Coast states of America before a national primary where 22 states are holding elections – more than double the number for “Super Tuesday” in 2004.

But neither can win the nomination today. Party rules requiring delegates from each state to be awarded proportionately should mean that they get roughly equal shares of the 1,681 up for grabs.

On Monday, she welled up when she visited Connecticut. A lawyer who introduced Clinton to a crowd at the Yale Child Study Centre, where they both worked in the early 1970s, appeared to cry as he recalled her bell-bottomed trousers and his pride at what she had since achieved. She appeared to wipe her left eye before saying: “Well, I said I would not tear up. Already we’re not exactly on the path.”

A similar display of emotion is thought to have helped her to win the New Hampshire primary last month but her campaign is wary of such episodes jarring with a message that she, unlike Obama, is battle-hardened to withstand an assault from the “Republican attack machine” at the general election in November.

 

Source : DNAIndia