By Jeff Mason
Reuters
Saturday, June 14, 2008; 8:38 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain targeted disappointed supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton on Saturday with high profile help from Carly Fiorina, an adviser and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive who has been called one of the most powerful women in the United States.
McCain, an Arizona senator who has wrapped up his party's White House nomination, makes no secret of his wish to attract women who backed New York Sen. Clinton's presidential bid, regularly praising her and noting their work and travel together as members of the Senate.
But the direct use of Fiorina, a top economic adviser and head of a Republican get-out-the-vote effort, reflects a belief by the McCain camp that they can secure a number of independent and Democratic Clinton supporters, some of whom say they will not back the presumptive nominee Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
