Clinton Paints Herself as Candidate of Experience... and Change

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By Dan Gorenstein on Sunday, September 2, 2007.
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With voting to begin in key primary states in four months time, Hillary Clinton is spending Labor Day weekend in New Hampshire and Iowa.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports.

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From the signs on the stage to the rhetoric in her 30 minute speech, New York Senator Hillary Clinton tried to distinguish herself from Democratic rival Barack Obama.

One sign read ‘Change plus Experience,’ another proclaimed ‘The Change We Need.’

Over the past few months many in the media and voters have come to see the Illinois Senator as the candidate of change and Clinton as the seasoned one.

28:12 change is just a word without the strength and experience to make it happen. And I know some people think you have to choose between change and experience. well with me, you don’t have to choose. I have spent my entire life fighting for change.

Typically in New Hampshire voters begin to really pay attention to the primary after Labor Day.

One voter who came in undecided toward Hillary and said after the speech and watching the candidate engage with voters swayed her opinion that maybe she, like Obama represents the change the country needs.

For NHPR News, I’m DG in Concord, NH.

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