ON THE TRAIL

McClatchy Newspapers; The Associated Press

May 5, 2008

Running out of high- dollar donors, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is stepping up its Internet appeals in hopes of attracting enough contributions to keep afloat financially in the last stretch of Democratic primaries, aides say. Clinton aides have sought increasingly to shadow rival Barack Obama's Internet juggernaut that has raised more than $112 million. A senior Clinton fundraising operative confided that big donors are nearly tapped out. "I think the tank is empty," said the fundraiser, who insisted on anonymity. "This is just unprecedented money raising. ... Where there is money left is on the Internet."

- McClatchy Newspapers

Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters he didn't think he still had it in him. Clinton was campaigning for his wife's presidential bid yesterday in western North Carolina. After someone fell during an event in Lenoir, Clinton joked: "Somebody faints at nearly every one of these things now. At my age, I didn't think I could make anybody faint anymore." A young girl walked away from an earlier event in Marion after fainting. The elderly man in Lenoir was alert as emergency workers took him away on a stretcher.

- The Associated Press