California (A very BIG state): Obama 47 percent, McCain 40 percent among registered voters,

[Genevieve]

Clinton faces uproar with Kennedy assassination comment

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced a firestorm Saturday sparked by her raising the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy to justify her decision to prolong her White House campaign. Clinton told a newspaper board in South Dakota she could not understand calls for her to quit, arguing that history showed that some past nominating contests had gone on into June.

"My husband (Bill Clinton) did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary, somewhere in the middle of June, right?" Clinton said Friday in an interview with the Argus Leader newspaper editorial board."We all remember, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California, I don't understand it," Clinton said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton condemned her comment as "unfortunate" and said it "has no place in this campaign."

Clinton appeared to reference the Kennedy killing at the end of the 1968 Democratic presidential race to show that previous Democratic nominating contests have stretched well into June.But referring to political assassinations is fraught with sensitivity, especially for supporters of Obama, who accepted Secret Service protection last year, long before the time it is offered to most presidential candidates, because of unspecified threats.

Obama led McCain in the state 47 percent to 40 percent among registered voters, while Clinton led McCain only 43 percent to 40 percent, according to the survey published Saturday.
Entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080524/ts_afp/usvote_080524104813

[BlueManDude]

1. Cali is a must win for Dems. McCain will do much better there than...

the GOP nom did in 92, 96, 00, 04. He'll make the Dems spend time and money there.

[my3boyz]

2. I remember in 2004 at one pt it was showing Bush gaining ground in CA but it did NOT happen. nt