KEENE, N.H. — Hillary Rodham Clinton has a dismal assessment of the U.S. economy. She says it's "stalled out."
Campaigning
for president, Clinton toured a wood furniture factory in Keene, New
Hampshire, on Monday. It's her first visit to the early primary state
since she launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
As
she showed in Iowa last week, Clinton is highlighting struggles of
"everyday Americans" even if her remarks undercut the message of
President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat who sees the economy in a
brighter light.
In
Keene, Clinton said she came from a small-business family and the
country needs to do more to help entrepreneurs. As she put it: "It's not
enough just to tread water."
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Road
tripping for her new campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton is in New
Hampshire to try to recapture the magic of the 2008 Democratic primary
victory that gave that year's faltering effort a second wind.
As
she did in Iowa last week, Clinton is forgoing the packed rallies that
marked her previous presidential campaign and focusing on smaller
roundtable events with supporters. And, also like last week, she again
traveled from her New York home in a van nicknamed Scooby, though not
nearly as far.
She
arrived in the pouring rain Monday for a stop at a bakery in the
liberal enclave of Keene, where she ordered black tea with milk and
signed "I love you" to a deaf server while settling down at a table with
patrons.
She
was also visiting employees of Whitney Brothers Inc., a small business
that makes wood furniture, before a roundtable event on Tuesday with
students and teachers at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord.
Clinton,
who eventually lost the 2008 Democratic nomination to Barack Obama,
came to New Hampshire this time as the party's leading candidate and so
far faces little opposition. Nevertheless, her campaign is determined to
show early-state voters that she is taking nothing for granted.
New
Hampshire has long been fertile ground for the Clinton family. In 1992,
a second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary made Bill Clinton
the "comeback kid," refueling his effort to capture the Democratic
nomination and, eventually, the White House. Sixteen years later, a win
in New Hampshire salvaged Hillary Clinton's campaign after a third-place
finish in the Iowa caucuses and propelled her into a months-long battle
for the nomination finally won by then-Sen. Obama.
Last
year, when Clinton spoke to a rally in New Hampshire before the midterm
elections, she recalled the 2008 campaign: "You lifted me up, you gave
me my voice back, you taught me so much about grit and determination.
And I will never forget that."
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