Feb 5, 2008 5:47 am US/Eastern
Clinton In NYC: No New Taxes For Middle Class
Senator Gives CBS 2 The News After 'Late Show' Taping
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBS) ―
Super Tuesday polls open in just a few hours and that means all the candidates for president -- Democrats and Republicans -- were in the hunt for votes in some two dozen states.
Hillary Clinton brought her Super Tuesday push to the "Late Show With David Letterman," where she made CBS 2 HD a campaign promise: No new taxes, at least for a lot of people.
"We should not be raising taxes on the middle class people who are struggling to make ends meet and that includes a lot of people in New York," Clinton said.
It was a day for candidates to come to the metropolitan area.
Barack Obama swooped into the Meadowlands, with Sen. Ted Kennedy, niece Caroline and actor Robert DeNiro in tow just hours after the underdog Giants won the Super Bowl.
"I think we should take heart, Ted, by the fact that sometimes the underdog pulls it out," Obama told a crowd of supporters.
Obama has surged 11 points in the New Jersey polls in just over a week. It's now Clinton 48, Obama 43, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, so Obama is hoping for an upset.
Republican front-runner John McCain also stumped in New Jersey.
Unlike with the Democrats, McCain is enjoying a solid edge over the rest of the GOP field. He has a commanding lead over Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, but the Arizona senator has been around long enough to know the race isn't over yet.
"We are tired of gridlock," McCain told a crowd in Hamilton, N.J.
Clinton knows the race isn't over yet either. That's why her supporters took to the city streets Monday for one last push.
They chanted as they walked through Manhattan: "When I say madam, you say president. When I say madam, you say president."
The Democratic polls are so tight, expect Clinton and Obama to battle well past Super Tuesday.
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