May 7, 2008 7:47 pm US/Eastern
Talk Of 'Dream Ticket' Grows With 'Voteboth.com'
Hillary Supporters Launch Site Hoping To Unite Democratic Party, Put Another Clinton In White House
Obama Still Mum On Sharing Ticket With Rival
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Democratic Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton enter at the start of their debate at the National Constitution Center on April 16, 2008 in Philadelphia.
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Hillary Clinton may be down, but don't count her out just yet.
She lost the North Carolina primary on Tuesday night to Barack Obama and narrowly won Indiana. Now her supporters are trying to build support for a so-called "Dream Ticket" of Obama and Clinton.
CBS 2 HD has discovered that the two of them launched a new Web site Tuesday called "Vote Both."
With Clinton it's not what she says so much as what she does.
"I'm in this race until there's a nominee and I intend to be the nominee," Clinton said Wednesday, just a few hours after being blown out in North Carolina and almost suffering a major embarrassment in Indiana.
On Tuesday a bunch of Hillaryites launched "Voteboth.com" to push the idea of a "Dream Ticket" of both Clinton and Obama … again.
"We figure why have a nominee who has won 51.1 percent of the vote when you can have a ticket of both of them who have won 100 percent of the Democratic vote?" Voteboth.com spokesman Sam Arora said.
Until recently, Arora was Clinton's press spokesman, but now he's okay with Obama in the No. 1 spot.
"If Sen. Obama becomes the nominee we're going to make the case that hope and experience can co-exist and make the ticket much stronger," Arora said.
Pundits say that a "Dream Ticket" could deal with one problem – the possibility that Hillary supporters could vote for Republican John McCain come November.
"It could cut down on those numbers if there are Hillary supporters who are moving to McCain principally because they don't want to vote for a black president," said political expert David Birdsell of Baruch College. "It won't make any difference, but if there are Hillary supporters who really believe a Clinton should be in the White House, those are votes that they might help keep."
Would New Yorkers support a "Dream Ticket?" The citizens CBS 2 HD spoke with seem pretty mixed.
Of course there is the very real possibility that the dream of a "Dream Ticket" is really just the last gasp of the Clinton team. Obama refuses to say how he feels about it.
Exit polls Tuesday showed that a high percentage of Hillary supporters plan to vote for McCain if she doesn't get the nomination, with 32 percent of Indiana Clinton voters and 35 percent of North Carolina saying they'll switch parties.
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