Clinton supporters rally for their candidate in Yankton, S.D., the day before the states primary.
Amy Klobuchar was a swing voter this year. At the outset of the 2008 race, the 48-year-old Senator from Minnesota was exactly the kind of voter Hillary Clinton's campaign was counting on. Women a generation older would be safely in their camp. Younger women would be susceptible to Obamamania. Clinton's team thought that those in Klobuchar's demographic--professional, well-educated women who came of age during the modern women's movement--would be moved by the very real opportunity to put one of their own in the White House.
It hasn't quite worked out that way. While Klobuchar's 80-year-old mother is an ardent Clinton supporter...
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