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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Bill Clinton, Inching Toward the Exit LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For Hillary Clinton's staff, two for the price of one has always been complicated. On the day Kentucky heads to the polls, former president Bill Clinton joined his wife to greet people at Lynn's Paradise Café, a kitschy restaurant here. A reporter shouted a question at Hillary Clinton, asking, "would you want to comment on sexism in the campaign?" It's a theme many Clinton supporters have raised, as has the candidate herself. "Oh, I'm just having a good time talking to everybody in Kentucky," Sen.Clinton said, brushing the question aside to resume posing for pictures and chatting with voters. Bill Clinton, who was following behind his wife, had no such reluctance when a reporter asked him a similar question a few minutes later. "I'm not sure anybody knows yet," he said when asked how his wife's gender has affected her candidacy, "but I think that over time, if you look at the votes, people have become more comfortable about a woman." He added, "I don't think there is any question there have been moments of gender bias ... but she keeps going." At this point, one of his wife's aides shouted, "Thanks guys," looking to end the impromptu news conference. The former president greeted a few more people, but couldn't resist responding to more questions as they were shouted at him. "All she ever asked was to let everybody vote and count every vote, do the right and decent thing by Florida and Michigan, don't let the Republicans seem more enlightened than us," he said, in response to a query about the state of her candidacy. Asked about a joint ticket between his wife and Barack Obama, the ex-president said: "I have no business talking about that. There are only two people in America who should be talking about that. The rest of us should be silent and observe." As for Obama's reported plan to declare tonight that he has won the race among pledged delegates, the former President said, "they won't be tonight unless you decapitate Michigan and Florida which violates our values and is dumb politics.... Republicans are supposed to be the people who don't count votes in Florida, not Democrats." Even as he restated campaign talking points, Clinton aides repeatedly shouted "Thanks, guys, thanks" and suggested the buses that bring the press to and from events would soon leave, as Hillary Clinton was near the door. Hardly anyone moved, and the ex-president spoke again of how the GOP seemed "more enlightened" than the Democrats in how it handled the complicated situation of Michigan and Florida, which violated the rules of both parties by holding their primaries on non-sanctioned dates. As Bill Clinton finally started wandering away from reporters, he was asked if he was ready for the process to be over. "There are three more left, then I'll be ready for it to be over," he said.
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