Apr. 22, Headlines - Pennsylvanians head to the polls today. With 158 delegates at stake, Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama. Both spent the last hours aggressively campaigning
across the state. Meanwhile the the latest
fundraising reports show Obama
has 5 times more money than Clinton. Obama made 40 million dollars in March.
Clinton raised twenty million but is ten million dollars in debt.
Republican
presumptive nominee John McCain says he will have a difficult time winning
over black voters. At a campaign stop in Alabama, McCain delivered a speech
near the Edmund Pettus Bridge which become famous for the bloody beatings of
civil rights marchers in 1965. McCain said he is "aware of the challenges" in
gaining the black vote. But he insisted he's up to that challenge.
McCain drew
a crowd of about 100 people, most of them white, in a town that is 70 percent
black.
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