Obama Says No to More Debates

Barack Obama today rejected the idea of additional debates against Hillary Clinton, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I’m not ducking. We’ve had 21” debates, the senator said, insisting he prefers face-to-face talks with the kind of blue-collar voters who helped clinch Clinton’s Pennsylvania win.

In a Fox News Sunday appearance that ended the program’s 771-day “Obama Watch,” the candidate maintained that race is not key to his campaign, the New York Times reports. “If I lose, it won’t be because of race," he said. He vowed to draw support from working-class voters in the general election, adding that his backers aren’t simply “black voters or Chablis-drinking, limousine liberals.” (More Barack Obama stories.)