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Chief Strategist Mark Penn and Communications Director Howard Wolfson held a conference call on behalf of the Clinton campaign to discuss the current state of the presidential race.

Penn and Wolfson said that although Obama has proclaimed he is front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, recent polling has gone against his declarations. Clinton’s campaign alleged that Senator Obama is a less worthy candidate to defeat republican candidate John McCain than Clinton is.

To back Senator Clinton, Penn and Wolfson emphasized polls have proven voters have a higher opinion about her economic plans and her chances to succeed as the next Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces than Obama. Also, the Clinton group noted that Hillary is more aggressively fighting for the voters of Florida and Michigan to have their still-being-debated votes counted than Obama.

Obama, said Penn and Wolfson, has made a “pattern of using words” without supporting them through “action.”