Via Politico:

Hillary Clinton again refused to state her position on the Keystone XL pipeline Thursday at the beginning of a three-day swing through New Hampshire, but she promised to voice her opinion on it “soon.”

“Keystone Pipeline, one of my favorite issues,” Clinton said when asked about the proposed oil pipeline at a friendly town hall here in the first-in-the-nation primary state, where she is seeking to regain her polling lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I have been waiting for the administration to make a decision … I can’t wait too much longer. I’m putting the White House on notice, I’m going to tell you what I think — soon.”

The contentious pipeline project is still under review at the State Department, and Clinton has said for months that because the process was started under her watch, she should not “second guess” President Barack Obama’s eventual decision. Her refusal to say whether she supports approving or rejecting the pipeline has been criticized from both sides as a lack of leadership on an important issue to the Democratic Party’s grassroots. Sanders opposes the pipeline and has criticized Clinton for not taking a position on it.

The Keystone question was lobbed at Clinton at the end of what devolved into a lightning-round town hall at the Boys and Girls Club, where attendees shouted out the general topic of their questions — immigration, autism, Russian President Vladimir Putin, climate change, and more — with Clinton offering a quick-fire round of answers that did not probe much deeper than what she says in her stump speech.