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Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have reacted to Gov. Eliot Spitzer 's sex scandal. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Let’s wait and see what comes out over the next days. But right now I don’t have any comment and I think it’s appropriate just to wish his family well and we’ll wait and see how things develop.” Gov. Eliot Spitzer is one of the Super Delegates who have endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama: “I really haven’t seen the details of it, so I don’t know what’s going on. I’m a little in the dark.” He declined to comment further. John McCain: “I was just watching, as all of you have, this information about the governor of New York. I don’t know what to make of it.’’ Later, he said that it was something that “nobody ever expected” and added, “Our prayers go out to his family.’’

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4 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos Clinton, Thompson Win First Presidential 'Primary' Nation's Social Studies Teachers Flex Voting Muscles and Choose '08 Contenders Pearson Sponsors Presidential Primary at National Council for the Social Studies Annual Event SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was the Republicans' top choice wit...