Reply #10: Clinton revises remark on women in Miss. [View All]

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I think Clinton has deliberately insulted Mississippi because 1) she knows she is going to lose this state, just like SC and
2) she did this to bait women voters around the country to vote for her in a sort of "sisterhood" of downtrodden women.

Clinton revises remark on women in Miss.

Clinton tries to backpedal from comments disparaging Mississippi on women's progress
By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer | AP Mar 7, 2008

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women's progress.

Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses "were not exactly what I said," even though they came directly from an interview she gave to the Des Moines Register in October.

Clinton was on a campaign swing through Mississippi before Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.

The newspaper quoted the New York senator discussing Iowa and Mississippi being the only states that have never elected a woman governor or sent a woman to Congress

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