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      Political notes from Free Press staff writers Terri Hallenbeck, Sam Hemingway and Nancy Remsen
      
      
       
          3.28.2008 
        
         
        
           
            
              Leahy: Hillary should quit race
  
              
          
        
        Sign up Patrick Leahy as another leading Democrat trying to send signals to Hillary Clinton that it's time for her to quit her quest for president. Leahy is quoted today on Vermont Public Radio as saying Clinton's candidacy is doomed and that at this point, she's hurting the Barack Obama's and the party's chances of capturing the White House in November. Leahy officially came out for Obama in January, but it's been obvious who he was going to back since attending an Obama fundraiser in Norwich last summer. Here's what Leahy said today: "There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that's a decision that only she can make. Frankly, I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate." Leahy also said the longer the Obama-Clinton battle goes on, the more it helps the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain: "John McCain, who has been making one gaffe after another, is getting a free ride on it because Senator Obama and Senator Clinton have to fight with each other. I think that her criticism is hurting him more than anything John McCain has said. I think that's unfortunate." Listen to VPR's interview with Leahy here:  http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79888/The let's-rally-behind-Obama drumbeat has gotten distinctively louder in recent days. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson threw his support to Obama a week ago and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey is doing so tody. Yesterday Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd said he thought Obama had already won the race, for all intents and purposes. And old friend Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in an Associated Press interview today he's worried that the increasingly personal battle between Obama and Clinton is demoralizing the Democratic base and thereby hurting the chances for victory in November. Then again, the voters of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana haven't had a chance to have their say, and the polls show Clinton remains competitive in all three states and ahead by double digits in Pa. So what do you think. Should Hillary get out or go on? -- Sam Hemingway 
          
         
        
          
        
      
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