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February 28, 2008

Clinton to Bryant crowd: Hillary needs your vote / Photo

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl
Former President Bill Clinton works the rope line after addressing a crowd on behalf of his wife, presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton at Bryant today.

SMITHFIELD -- Former President Bill Clinton told a crowd at Bryant University that his wife needs them to swing the vote in the presidential primary on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The next big contest is Tuesday, when voters go to the polls in Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio and Texas.

Speaking to a crowd of more than 2,000, Clinton said that if his wife can get a victory here, along with victories in Ohio and Texas, then she is on her way to the White House.

Clinton said to the crowd if they were having trouble deciding who to vote for -- or somebody they knew was -- they should perform a simple exercise. Don't ask how you feel right now or how you will feel on Inauguration Day, but, when it's over, how will you if the next president has done a good job, Clinton said. He said he asked his wife that months ago.

" ...After a while she said, 'I believe, if I'm luck enough to be elected, I believe I will think I did a good job if I could say, at the end, these things: Number one, the American people are better off when I quit than when I started. Nmber two, our children and grandchildren have a brighter future. And number three, this troubled but fascinating world is coming together instead of being driven apart," Bill Clinton said.

He added: "If you want the next president to say, yes, yes, yes, I urge you to vote for her. I hope you will volunteer to help her in the closing days."

The former president was in Philadelphia earlier today and was scheduled to hit Ohio later in the day. Hillary Clinton was campaigning in Ohio and Texas.

Hillary Clinton visited Rhode Island Sunday for a morning fundraiser and an afternoon rally at Rhode Island College.

Her opponent for the Democratic nomination, Obama, the Illinois senator, is slated to campaign in Rhode Island this Saturday. Wwhen and where had not been determined, his campaign said yesterday, but it's probably an early-afternoon visit. Obama’s wife, Michelle, made a campaign stop in the state last week.

Republican candidates John McCain, the Arizona senator and presumptive GOP nominee, and Mike Huckabee, who distantly trails McCain in the delegate tally ahead of the party convention, have also made stops here this month.

-- The Associated Press and projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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