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October 30, 2007: At a debate in Philadelphia, Clinton gives a confusing answer on whether she supports granting driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. Her opponents pick up the scent.

MARC AMBINDER: For a solid hour, the Democratic presidential candidates ganged up on Clinton, and her vote in favor of the Lieberman-Kyl resolution served as their cri de coeur … Her strategic ambiguity on Social Security still sounds puzzling, and her defense of Eliot Spitzer’s proposal to provide illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses—oh wait, was she defending the approach, or the idea of dealing with the issue? The debate was not supposed to end this way!

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