Obama Press Conference Call: On Clinton Campaign’s Writing Off Of North Carolina

[Obama Campaign Press Release/Conference Call from March 12, 2008]

OBAMA CAMPAIGN TO HOST CONFERENCE CALL ON CLINTON CAMPAIGN’S WRITING OFF OF NORTH CAROLINA

Chicago, IL - Today, the Obama campaign will host a conference call on the Clinton campaign’s comments that the Democratic nominee will lose North Carolina in the general election.

Congressman G.K. Butterfield and Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs will host a call with North Carolina reporters today.

In today’s New York Times, Clinton campaign senior advisor Harold Ickes tries once again to explain away Senator Obama’s strong wins in typically “red states” by saying: “Most of those states haven’t voted Democratic in a presidential since the Johnson landslide over Goldwater in 1964, and we don’t see that changing. They’re great states, but Idaho, Nebraska and the Carolinas are not going to be in the Democratic column in November.”

WHO: Congressman G.K. Butterfield
Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs

WHAT: Conference Call with North Carolina Reporters

WHEN: TODAY, Wednesday March 12, 2008
3:00 pm EST//2:00 pm CST

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