Hillary’s refusal to reject donations ‘a huge turnoff’

Published: August 5, 2007, 8:15 pm

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BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton found herself on the hot seat Friday in Chicago at a convention of 1,500 bloggers testing her to see if she was liberal enough for them. Clinton, a New York senator, found herself sandwiched between her two closest rivals in the Democratic primary according to the polls, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, who brought the bloggers to a standing ovation when he challenged his fellow candidates to refuse to take contributions from lobbyists. Edwards noted that Obama also shunned lobbyist money, which revealed Edwards' challenge as a direct jab at Clinton, who has collected more from lobbyists than any other Democratic candidate. After Edwards raised the issue twice, the moderator asked Clinton if she would continue to take lobbyists' money. "Yes I will because, you know, a lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans," Clinton said. "They

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