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For Clinton's Ardent Backers, It's Obama on the Sidelines

 

Published 8/27/2008 by Eli Saslow at Wash Post Elections

DENVER, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters imagined this week as a celebration of their candidate, and for brief stretches they managed to fool themselves. One group traveled from New York and built an impromptu museum commemorating Clinton's historic campaign. Another lighted th... (link)

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