Obama Says Clinton Is "Still The Favorite"

Obama Says Clinton Is "Still The Favorite"

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Just three days before Super Tuesday, in a now two-person race with Sen. Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination, Barack Obama is still pushing back against issues of race and overcoming the status quo.

When asked during the MTV/MySpace/AP forum if the race was just about his race, Obama countered that it was not, because if it was, "I wouldn't have to answer questions. I could just show up."

Moments earlier at a rally in Minneapolis, Obama spoke about the race winnowing down and pushed back against the "status quo" before a crowd of 18,000.

"There are all sorts of reasons being authored by the purveyors for the status quo as to why we can't bring about change," Obama said, and then jokingly mocked some criticisms: "There are folks who are arguing around the 'if he is follower of Ronald Reagan,' despite this week they were saying, 'Well, he's too liberal because he's got a liberal voting record.' 'He's a little too black.' 'Well, maybe he's not black enough.'"

Obama said people got "giddy" after his Iowa win, and expected the rest to be easy.

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