Candidates battle it out in PA
March 13, 2008 PITTSBURGH (AP) - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has
scheduled two campaign stops in Pittsburgh on Friday. She also
plans to appear at the city's St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.
Clinton's campaign has not released details about the Friday
afternoon appearances.
Clinton's campaign says she will also appear at a St. Patrick's
Day parade in Scranton on Saturday.
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Sen. Obama visit canceled; wife's visits still on
MONACA, Pa. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's planned meeting at
the Penn State-Beaver campus on Thursday has been called off. His
campaign says it's because of Senate votes.
Obama's wife, Michelle, remains scheduled to appear in the
Philadelphia suburbs that day in her first campaign visits to
Pennsylvania.
At a private event in Ardmore, she will read to children and
host a women's roundtable. She will then hold public rallies at
Abington High School and Villanova University.
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Bill Clinton tells Pa. voters wife will bring jobs, health care
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Bill Clinton told voters in Erie that as
president his wife would create manufacturing jobs, provide
affordable health care and strengthen the middle class.
Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of about 500 people, the
former president laid out reasons he believes Americans should
elect Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to the office he once held.
He was interrupted once by a man who blamed the former
president's trade policies for job losses.
The same day, daughter Chelsea Clinton was slated to visit
Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Lebanon Valley College in
Annville and Point Park University in Pittsburgh.
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Sen. John McCain plans Pa. primary campaign stops
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Arizona Sen. John McCain will be
campaigning in central and eastern Pennsylvania at the end of the
week.
The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting is scheduled to
meet Thursday with employees at Turbine Airfoil Design in
Harrisburg, an event that is closed to the public.
He'll also hold private fundraisers that day at the West Shore
Country Club in Camp Hill and at The Rittenhouse Hotel in
Philadelphia.
On Friday, McCain will host a meeting at Springfield Township
Country Club in suburban Philadelphia.
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