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Hillary makes campaign a family business

Des Moines (U.S.): While rival Barack Obama is turning to celebrity, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing a distinctly family feel to her bid for the party’s nomination by opening her latest campaign swing with her 88-year-old mother in tow.

Ms. Clinton, locked in a tight race with Mr. Obama and the former Senator, John Edwards, in the state’s leadoff caucuses, planned a two-day series of grass-roots events encouraging people to “bring a buddy” to the January 3 caucuses.

“I wanted to bring a buddy with me so I brought my mother, Dorothy Rodham,” she said. “She lives with Bill and me and she’s been following the campaign very closely. She has a lot of questions that I try to answer.”

Continuing the family focus, Ms. Clinton’s campaign announced that her former President husband, Bill Clinton, will return to the state on Monday to stump on her behalf. Ms. Clinton opened her latest presidential campaign swing at a Des Moines high school where she held her first campaign event in Iowa nearly a year ago.

With the opening event of the nominating season less than four weeks away, all of the leading rivals are beginning to focus on generating turnout at those caucuses.

Mr. Obama was grabbing the lion’s share of the attention, opening a campaign swing on Friday with talk-show maven Oprah Winphrey, making two stops in Iowa and then stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina. — AP

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