Why did Wash. Post claim that Clinton said people “in college towns” “don't need a president”?
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A Washington Post article reported that in the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton “fared best among working-class and middle-class voters, while [Sen. Barack] Obama did better with higher-income voters and in college towns -- a demographic that Clinton at one point mocked as people who 'don't need a president.' ” Searches of Google and the Nexis database found a newspaper article that quoted Clinton as saying, “Rich people don't need a president. They have been doing fine, and have been having a run of luck with George Bush.” But Media Matters could find no reports that quoted Clinton saying people “in college towns” don't need a president.