We were back on the trail this morning, this time at a rally for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton at Nashua North High School. The event drew an enormous crowd, as literally thousands lined the sidewalk outside the school before the doors opened. Once inside, the campaign blared music from Bon Jovi, Rascal Flatts and others and threw out T-shirts during “Hillary Trivia” to keep supporters occupied for more than an hour.
Clinton arrived shortly after 1 p.m. with daughter Chelsea and immediately launched into a 40-minute stump speech that drew stark contrasts between her and frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama. Responding to Obama’s campaign themes of change and hope, Clinton said that hers is a record of action and not just words, and that both Obama and John Edwards had taken numerous positions in the last few years that did not represent change.
After her remarks, Clinton took more then 40 minutes of questions, no easy task considering the more than 2,000 supporters packed into the school’s gym, on everything from healthcare and education to social security, global warming and the war in Iraq. The 80-minute event was the longest of our trip, and attendees could be seen filing out of the gym well before it was over.
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