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We haven’t seen the end of the Clinton-Obama diplomacy feud.
A full week is a long time for two rival presidential campaigns to engage in an all-out broadside, especially when it’s about a relatively minor difference of approach to foreign relations. And especially in July. But it looks as though the battle is likely to continue, as apparently one of the candidates is now polling to learn what Iowans think about the subject.
Joe Judge, chairman of the Monroe County Democratic Party, told Iowa Independent that he received a poll call Tuesday asking him for his opinion on the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate answers of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Judge said the caller asked him specifically about the CNN/YouTube question regarding whether the candidates, as president, would meet with enemy dictators without preconditions.
“The poll caller quoted directly the debate responses from Obama and Clinton and then asked me which candidate I agree with,” said Judge. The other questions asked in the poll were about perceived electability, Judge said. “Most of the position questions asked, actually almost all of them, were about Hillary Clinton and not about the other candidates.”
That led Judge to believe that it was an internal poll conducted by the Clinton campaign. The caller told Judge he was working for a firm called PSA Interviewing. (For more information on the connection between the Clinton campaign and PSA Interviewing, click here.)
The feisty exchange between the senator from New York and the senator from Illinois began immediately following the CNN/YouTube debate, way back on July 23.
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