March 03, 2008
Spread The Word
TOLEDO, OH, March 3 -- It's 5:41am, and Hillary Clinton is standing just inside the factory gate at a Chrysler plant, greeting workers as they come through the turnstile.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who has campaigned for her extensively in the state, and California Rep. Laura Richardson are with the senator as she poses for pictures and asks for support in the pre-dawn hours one day before voters hit the polls in a contest that will help decide her political fate.
"I'll work hard for you," Clinton says as she shakes hands with workers. "I need your help tomorrow. I need you to get everybody to come out and vote."
"Hillary needs your help tomorrow," Strickland echoes.
"Say hello to Sen. Clinton. Appreciate your vote," he says as workers enter. "Spread the word at the plant for Hillary. Spread the word in there."
The senator and her entourage later greeted workers inside the plant, and she checked out a new Jeep. The excursion lasted a little over half an hour.
Some 500 people work this shift at the plant, which opened in 2000 and employs some 3,500 people.
Clinton has visited several factories in Ohio in recent days, part of an effort to emphasize her commitment to helping revive the state's economy and the nation's manufacturing industry. She often says in speeches that a country that doesn't make things cannot grow.
Polls show Clinton leading in a tight race here.
(NBC/NJ's ATHENA JONES)
Posted at 08:36 AM
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