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Obama Says No to More Debates

Posted Apr 27, 08 5:33 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama today rejected the idea of additional debates against Hillary Clinton, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I’m not ducking. We’ve had 21” debates, the senator said, insisting he prefers face-to-face talks with the kind of blue-collar voters who helped clinch Clinton’s Pennsylvania win.

In a Fox News Sunday appearance that ended the program’s 771-day “Obama Watch,” the candidate maintained that race is not key to his campaign, the New York Times reports. “If I lose, it won’t be because of race," he said. He vowed to draw support from working-class voters in the general election, adding that his backers aren’t simply “black voters or Chablis-drinking, limousine liberals.”

Sources: Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Bloomberg

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Barack Obama said, "If I lose, it won't be because of race."   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Barack Obama has rejected an offer from Hillary Clinton to have another debate.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Hillary Clinton had offered to debate Barack Obama without a moderator before Indiana's May 6 debate.   (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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