Clinton

March 18, 2007 - 10:14pm

Trailing in New Jersey, Obama volunteers target 'everyday voters'

Studying international relations in Warsaw, Damian Bednarz says he took it on the chin over there on the issue of American Presidential politics, particularly when it came to the Bush and Clinton families.

“This one guy told me, ‘I thought you people threw out your kings in the revolution,’� Bednarz recalls. “‘Now you’re having it out between two families.’�

It was in part a reaction to the seeming Bush-Clinton strangulation hold on the presidency that drove Bednarz into the arms of Barack Obama.

Mostly, he says, it was the independent appeal of the freshman Senator from Illinois himself.

“Obama has something that Hillary Clinton can’t buy or reproduce, and that’s a sense of inspiration,� Bednarz says.

Bednarz, a 25-year-old international relations major at Seton Hall University’s Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, knows he and New Jersey for Obama, the unofficial, grassroots campaign organization he runs, face a daunting challenge. With less than a year to go before the Democratic Primary here, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is dominating New Jersey the same way Rudy Giuliani appears to own Jersey for the Republicans.

Check out these stats from Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: Clinton leads Obama by 22 percentage points among registered Democrats, racking up 41 points to Obama’s 19.
Bednarz says that's all right.

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