Bill Clinton, Attempts to mobilise voters
Bill Clinton is rallying the Democratic Party faithful in a final effort to shore up support for Al Gore's bid for the presidency. Mr Gore, who is said to want to win the race on his own, is conspicuously absent from the US president's side. In northern California yesterday campaigning skills to inspire audiences of black, Asian and Hispanic supporters to get out the vote. "Remember where we were eight years ago," Clinton told a crowd of 7,000 in Oakland.
He said: "Think where we are today. If you want to build on the prosperity, if you want to build on the progress, if you want to keep building one America, there's only one choice. Go out and call your friends, and just tell them if you want to keep the prosperity going, if you want to keep the progress going and if you want to keep building one America, the is only one choice: Al Gore, Joe Lieberman and the Democrats."
Today, Mr Clinton continues his mobilisation efforts in another Democratic stronghold, New York, where his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is locked in a heated race for the Senate seat vacated by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Clinton is to hold rallies in the largely poor New York City neighbourhoods of the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn before heading to Arkansas to cement support among Democrats in his home state.
