KDKA Campaign '08 Coverage
Apr 11, 2008 5:44 pm US/Eastern
Clinton Talks About Hitting Campaign Trail Locally
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
Senator Hillary Clinton continues to campaign across Pennsylvania as the state's primary elections continue to get closer.
KDKA's Political Editor Jon Delano recently caught up with Sen. Clinton to talk about her run for President and campaigning here in our area.
She says while she does get tired on the campaign trail, she gains her energy from the people.
"You can't help but get physically exhausted, but I get so much energy back from people," she told KDKA. "I really like being out visiting everybody."
This past week, Clinton has hop-scotched from Western Pa. to Philadelphia with lots of local stops to meet military leaders in Hopewell, court diners in West Mifflin, and pick up endorsements at Heinz Field.
Clinton says she knows that she must win Pennsylvania and some polls are showing her opponent Senator Barack Obama picking up steam.
She says that she tries not to pay attention to the polls. Instead, Clinton says she follows her instincts based on meeting people and she's very comfortable with Pennsylvania voters.
"I'm lucky because I have a pre-existing relationship with Pennsylvania going back to my father being born and raised in Scranton, and literally I spent so much time in Pennsylvania as a child and young women growing up that I feel very much at home," she says. "It's not a state that I have to look at a map and figure out where Pittsburgh is, or where Beaver County is, or where the suburbs of Philadelphia are."
She says she identifies with this region because it's like upstate New York, which she represents with people who need a President on their side.
"It's about who needs a President. There are places in our country that are doing really well," she said. "But there are other places where you really need to get to work to get those jobs growing again, to get universal health care for people, to have a new energy economy so that gas prices don't bankrupt families like there really putting a strain on today, to make college affordable again."
Every poll shows Clinton doing better in this region than Obama, while Obama's strength is in the Philadelphia area.
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