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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/03/america/campaign.php Clinton vows to press on
By Brian Knowlton and John M. Broder
Monday, March 3, 2008
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning all-out Monday in Ohio and Texas, said that she would press on after key primaries Tuesday, even as her campaign played down earlier talk that she might drop out if she failed to win either of the two crucial presidential primaries.
The New York senator told reporters in Toledo, Ohio, that the measure of success for her on Tuesday - Vermont and Rhode Island are also holding primaries - would be simply "winning." She said she would press on into Pennsylvania, which votes April 22, and elsewhere after the primaries Tuesday, saying, "I'm just getting warmed up."
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But her advisers sought to shift the pressure for big results onto Obama, and seemed to retreat from suggestions - including from the candidate's husband, former President Bill Clinton - that Hillary Clinton needed to win at least the big states Tuesday to remain viable.
"With all his momentum, favorable press coverage and money, anything short of a decisive victory in the four states voting this week will be a major disappointment for Senator Obama and his campaign," Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman, said in an e-mail. "If he can't win under those circumstances, one has to wonder why."
Clinton aides say that Obama has had two earlier opportunities to essentially bury Clinton - in New Hampshire, following his surprise victory in Iowa, and on "Super Tuesday," following his big victory in South Carolina. Yet, both times she bounced back and survived.
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Many of the party's superdelegates, mostly senior Democratic officials potentially crucial to the nomination, are impatient to coalesce around a winning candidate...........
The latest polls show Texas as a statistical dead heat, while Clinton retains a small lead in Ohio. The New York senator would probably need a robust turnout among Hispanics in Texas and of white women in Ohio to prevail.
Clinton hardly acted like a defeated woman Monday, however. After arriving in Toledo past midnight, she arose well before dawn to shake hands at an auto plant gate at 5:35 a.m.
The reactions from the workers ranged from thrilled to startled.
"Hillary, all right!" exclaimed one. "Hillary Clinton, you're a very strong woman," said another.
She planned to work nonstop throughout the day, with rallies in Toledo and in Beaumont, Texas, then two town-hall style meetings in Austin, Texas.
But to overcome Obama's lead in the all-important delegates to the national nominating convention, Clinton will need more than close victories. Under rules used by the Ohio Democratic Party to allocate the 141 delegates at stake, a resounding victory is needed to win a preponderance of delegates.
On the other hand, if Clinton carries both Ohio and Texas, Obama could find himself in for a protracted, wrenching battle.
"There are 16 remaining contests after Tuesday," said Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn. "There's nothing wrong with letting the people in the remaining jurisdictions have their say."
Some analysts speculate that Clinton's sympathetic supporters might still vote in large numbers to save her candidacy.
"She has a shot" at carrying both Texas and Ohio, James Carville, her husband's former strategist, said Sunday.