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After Hillary, Bill Clinton's turn to boost Obama

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-27 21:25

"There is still work to do on the Bill Clinton front," Howard Wolfson, former Hillary Clinton senior campaign strategist, wrote in The New Republic this week.

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Sometimes known in the American media as "the Big Dog," Clinton capped a comeback in his 1992 presidential campaign by promising to fight for New Hampshire voters "until the last dog dies."

Some Democratic delegates at the convention believe that in the end, the Big Dog will bark loudly on behalf of Obama.

"Bill Clinton's feeling are hurt. His ego is bruised," said Brandon Hines, who, at 20, is Michigan's youngest delegate. "I think he will come around for Obama."

The ex-president could be seen tearing up on Tuesday night as he sat in the audience and applauded as his wife asked her supporters to back Obama.

Republicans who have set up an outpost in Denver to hector Democrats have been trying to exploit any signs of division in the Democratic Party.

After running behind Obama in public opinion polls for months, McCain expressed surprise that he had pulled ahead of the Democrat in a Gallup daily tracking poll that had him leading 46 percent to 44 percent.

The mild slide for Obama, which came despite his naming of Biden as his running mate, has generated some anxiety among Democrats who feel he needs to aggressively attack McCain, a chore Hillary Clinton seized with alacrity.

"Now John McCain is my colleague and my friend. He has served our country with honor and courage. But we don't need four more years, of the last eight years," she said.

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