Feb 4, 2008 5:14 pm US/Eastern
Kennedy: Vote For Obama Is Like Vote For JFK, RFK
Obama Relishing Underdog Role In New Jersey Primary
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBS) ―
Super Tuesday is turning out to be the Super Bowl of politics for the Democrats.
A new CBS News poll has Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama neck-and-neck nationally. While campaigning at the Meadowlands on Monday Obama compared his underdog status to that of the Giants.
Obama swooped into the Meadowlands with Sen. Ted Kennedy and niece Caroline just hours after the underdog Giants won the Super Bowl.
"Think we should take heart, Ted, by the fact that sometimes the underdog pulls it out," Obama said.
Obama was in the hunt for New Jersey's 127 delegates after a new Quinnipiac poll showed him picking up 11 points since Jan. 23. It's now Clinton 48, Obama 43.
"I'm here today to ask the people of New Jersey to do the same, cast the same votes for Barack Obama as they cast for John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy," Ted Kennedy said.
Clinton, meanwhile, lost her voice some 100 miles north.
And with the Super Tuesday contest with Obama tightening she also lost her composure, tearing up as a New Haven public interest lawyer recalled working with Clinton as a student in the 1970s.
"I said I would not tear up," Clinton said. "Already we're not on that path."
Both Democrats are wrapping up an intense round of campaigning as voters in some two dozen states go to the polls Tuesday.
The Democratic contest is so tight that many see Sens. Clinton and Obama continuing to duke it out eve after Super Tuesday.
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