Paterson Points To Clinton ‘Desperation’
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ALBANY — Governor Paterson, who is a superdelegate supporting Senator Clinton, said he hopes she will end her effort to count Michigan and Florida votes to save her presidential campaign.
In his latest round of radio interviews statewide, Mr. Paterson also said yesterday that he’s beginning to see “a little desperation,” on Mrs. Clinton’s part.
The governor said he doubts his home-state senator would get the edge in the popular vote over front-running Senator Obama for his party’s nomination, even if the two states’ votes were counted.
The governor says Mrs. Clinton shouldn’t derail the process in which the Democratic National Committee disallowed results from the Michigan and Florida primaries because they were held too early.
A Clinton spokesman declined comment.
“I would say at this point we’re starting to see a little desperation on the part of a woman I still support and will support until she makes a different determination,” Mr. Paterson told WAMC-FM in Albany. “Candidates have to be cautious in their zeal to win that they don’t trample on the process.”
He said he wouldn’t agree with other Clinton supporters who say her effort to capture disallowed votes in Michigan and Florida is akin to a civil rights fight.
