Clinton Chasing Youth Vote: 'We Should Have a Government Blogging Team!'

[The Straight Story]

Clinton Chasing Youth Vote: 'We Should Have a Government Blogging Team!'
By Sarah Lai Stirland EmailJanuary 08, 2008 | 3:15:06 PMCategories: Election '08

Hillary Clinton continued her belated chase after the youth vote in her closing campaign rally in New Hampshire Monday night ripping a page out of rival Barack Obama's policy book by promising more government transparency, and an embrace of the internet.

"We should even have a government blogging team where people in the agencies are constantly telling all of you, the taxpayers, the citizens of America, everything that's going on so that you have up-to-the-minute information about what your government is doing, so that you too can be informed, and hold the government accountable," Clinton said.

Clinton made the remark during a packed evening rally held at a health and sports center in Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday night -- just hours before voters there began casting votes in the nation's first primary.

In a 45-minute wrap-up speech, the senator from New York once again pitched New Hampshire voters a wide range of her policy proposals, sounded many of her usual campaign themes, but this time with an Obama-esque twist.

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