Sources: Hillary Clinton 99%, Obama 80% Certain To Run For President...
Newsweek :
Here come the heavyweights. Sources inside the Hillary Clinton camp who insist on anonymity for fear of being frozen out say it is "99 percent certain" she will get into the presidential race early next year. Barack Obama partisans, less afraid of retribution but no less anonymous, say their man is "about 80 percent likely" to run. He won't make a final decision until the holidays.
One key Obama player is apparently onboard: Michelle Obama, a vice president of the University of Chicago hospital system and the senator's wife. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, engineer of a "Draft Obama" effort, says he saw Michelle recently and got a "much more positive response than I expected" to a possible candidacy. "She wasn't 100 percent but was moving in the right direction." Another source close to the senator (speaking anonymously because the campaign is not officially underway) was more emphatic: "She's down for whatever he decides. She has asked the tough questions on how all of this would change their lives. There are no yellow flags and certainly no red flags."




First Posted: 12-10-06 05:37 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM