The Obama boomlet in Mass. (Boston Globe)

[Eugene]

JOAN VENNOCHI
The Obama boomlet in Mass.

By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | February 8, 2007

HILLARY CLINTON'S bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee is
supposed to feel inevitable.

That's a big part of the Clinton strategy and it may play out as planned.
But here in Massachusetts -- which has been known as Clinton Country --
it faces an interesting challenge.

Alan Solomont , a top fund-raiser and longtime friend and supporter of Bill
and Hillary Clinton, rocked the local political boat when he signed on to help
Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Now, Solomont and other Democratic
activists such as lawyer Barry White and Thalia Schlesinger , sister of the late
Paul Tsongas, are starting to build a New England political organization for the
senator from Illinois.

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Polls show her leading the pack nationally and in New Hampshire, and, as a
Clinton fund-raiser warned Politico.com , "She's going to raise more money
than all the other candidates put together in the first six months of 2007."

But there is symbolism in a local Obama boomlet, humble though it may be. If
Massachusetts Democrats -- especially women -- can walk away from Hillary
Clinton, her path to the nomination may not be as inevitable as she wants
to paint it.

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Full article: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/08/the_obama_boomlet_in_mass/

[jakem]

1. Massholes for Obama!

...count me in!