After your statement from last week's Face The Nation appearance, where are we now? How are those backroom meetings going, and how long till you start to make public endorsements?
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/bill_richardson_time_soon_to_c.htmlBill Richardson: Time soon to call Democratic race
by Mark Silva
After Tuesday’s primary elections, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said today, it will be time to assess whether the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination should go on any longer.
The Republican nominee will be up and running, he said, there is too much time between Tuesday and the next big contest – the primary in Pennsylvania on Apr. 22 – and the contest in Ohio and Texas between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has grown too contentious for the party’s own good.
I’m just worried that the tone of this campaign has gotten excessively negative and it’s going to hurt us in November,’’ said Richardson, who abandoned his own bid for the nomination after fairing poorly in early primaries. He appeared on CBS News’ Face the Nation today with a new, finely trimmed beard and a sense of great ease.
Richardson warns that the TV ads which Clinton and Obama are tossing at each other “could be campaign fodder for the Republicans in the fall.’’
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