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Level -> Democrats court liberal bloggers (8/4/2007 2:26:27 PM)
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Democrats court liberal bloggers
By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 3 minutes ago
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rare defense of the special interest industry.
"A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do," Clinton said, drawing boos and hisses from liberal bloggers at the second Yearly Kos convention.
Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois put Clinton on the spot during a forum that featured seven of the eight major Democratic presidential candidates fielding questions from a crowd of 1,500 bloggers, most of them liberal. The gathering marked another advancement for the rising new wing of the Democratic Party, the so-called netroots.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_bloggers
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