Clinton Stays Confident On The Trail

New York Senator Rejects Any Suggestion That She's Dropping Out Of The Race

(AP)  Hillary Rodham Clinton was just warming up the crowd in a cramped and muggy middle school gymnasium when she switched her pronouns.

"All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about," Clinton said Sunday night, "if he actually cares about it."

The word hung in the air only for a moment.

"More likely, if she cares about it," she added.

Was it a dramatic turn of phrase or a slip of the tongue? A way to spotlight gender on Mother's Day or a sign that the public doubts about her campaign have taken root?

West Virginia is expected to deliver Clinton a big win Tuesday, but her campaign is not as confident as it once was. In the week since Democratic rival Barack Obama trounced her in North Carolina, Clinton has been closely watched for signs that her campaign's dwindling hopes have gotten to her.

For instance, she has eased off her pointed jabs at Obama. She has pledged anew that she would support the Democratic nominee "no matter what happens."

On Sunday, daughter Chelsea introduced her in West Virginia. In the past, she has brought her mother to the stage as "the next president of the United States." Sunday she added the word "hopefully."

Clinton rejects any suggestion that she's dropping out of the race. She used campaign stops Sunday to remind voters of women who didn't give up in difficult situations, who fought for equal rights, broke into male-dominated professions and succeeded when others told them to quit.

She quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, telling supporters: "A woman is like a tea bag. You never know strong she is until she is in hot water."

Earlier in the day, she read letters from supporters urging her not to give up, despite campaign math that's nearly impossible to work out in her favor.

Looking only at West Virginia, this should be a confident time for the New York senator. She remains strong among working-class white voters, women and older Americans. Those demographics are expected to carry her to a triumph Tuesday and another in Kentucky next week.

But Obama has a commanding lead in pledged delegates and has erased her lead among superdelegates, the party leaders who can side with any candidate. Obama is focusing on the general election against Republican John McCain.

Clinton's last best hope is to use strong showings in West Virginia and Kentucky to make the case that Obama is weak among key Democratic constituents.

"Why can't Senator Obama beat Senator Clinton in West Virginia? Voters there have heard that he's the presumptive nominee," Clinton campaign strategist Howard Wolfson said on "Fox News Sunday." "They've seen the great press he's gotten in the past couple of days. Let's let them decide. They have an opportunity. They want to end this on Tuesday, they're perfectly capable of it."

David Gergen, former White House adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, said in an AP Broadcast interview in San Francisco, "She says 'full steam ahead,' (but) her problem is that she's running out of track."

"She was the inevitable nominee and I think they misjudged what they were up against," Gergen added. "Along comes this phenomenon named Barack Obama and upsets everybody's calculations. The real problem in the (Clinton) campaign was that they weren't adaptable, they were not able to change game plan right in the middle once it looked like they had a real fight on their hands."

[sjc_1]

She should be confident. Pledged delegates and votes cast say it is even. The up coming primaries will be wins for her. She won the big blue states and Obama won some small red states with crossover votes and caucuses.

[craigh9]

Fanatics are treating Hillary and her attempt to capture the nomination the same as the fanatics in the south did in the civil war. The confederacy wasn''t defeated, its just regrouping. GIVE IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[craigh9]

Hillary is done for good. If Obama loses she will be branded as the cause and therefore would not be supported in an effort to run in 2012 - and if Obama is elected it is highly likely he would be the party nominee in 2012 and the "new" party will be in place with no room for the "Old Gaurd Ways" so Hillary would be on the outside looking in after that.

[sjc_1]

What will you do if Obama gets the nomination and loses in November? You would probably say that Clinton would have not won either.

We can not afford 4 years of McCain. 8 years of Reagan, 4 years of H.W. and 8 years of Junior have doomed this country to endless war and debt.

Obama can not win in November, but Hillary Clinton can. Most blacks will vote for Clinton, but most whites will not vote for Obama. Add up the electoral count and you will see.

[rowdytexan2]

The DNC is all over the news today BEGGING Hillary Clinton not to tell what she knows on Obama now that they''ve bullied his nomination!

When did our DNC get so corrupt? And how? Obama''s oil and gas money support? Do they need money THAT BAD?

You go HIllary! Show these b/a/s/tards who can get the votes and who can''t! Take it all the way to convention!

[rowdytexan2]

Obama has one or two freaking more legislators supporting him, and the b/a/s/**** is swilling that he''s the PRESUMPTIVE candidate?

This is just hilarious! Arrogance personitified. Is this the kind of bull ***** we want in our White House!

[blackmilitan]

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, an Obama supporter, compared Clinton to the Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction" -- a spurned woman turned stalker who was apparently drowned in a bathtub only to jump up one more time to be shot dead.

"Glenn Close should have stayed in that tub, and Sen. Clinton has had a remarkable career and needs to move to the next step, which is helping elect the Democratic nominee," Cohen said during a local TV interview. He later apologized for his comments.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4835378&page=1

[blackmilitan]

ROWDYTEXAS ACT AS IF HILLARY GONNA INCREASE HIS FOOD STAMPS.

GET YOUR LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING *** OUT OF THE TRAILER PARK ROWDYTEXAS AND WORK HARD FOR YOUR AMERICAN DREAM

NO ENTITLEMENTS FOR YOU.

[blackmilitan]

TRACEY MORGAN
OBAMA CAN PICK A DOZEN WHITES TO FILL THAT GAP

HE DOES NOT NEED HILLARY OR HER PEDOFILE HUSBAND

[rufisgufis]

HILLARY RESEMBLES AND REMINDS ME OF CHUCKY. THE MINUTE YOU THINK SHE%u2019S DEAD, THAT UGLY FACE OF HERS POPS RIGHT BACK UP.

BY THE WAY, OBAMA PICKED UP FOUR (4) MORE SUPERDELEGATES TODAY.

[karela33]

Mrs. Clinton is polled at 60% in West Virgina by Suffolk polls today. She has only managed 60% or more in Arkansas where her husband was governor. Obama has won 14 elections by 60% or more including Alaska, Georgia, Washington D.C., Illinois, Idaho, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi and North Dakota, Virginia, Washington state and Wyoming. He also had big wins in North Carolina at 56%, Vermont at 59% and Wisconsin at 58%. That is a total of seventeen big wins. Mrs. Clinton will not have seventeen wins of any kind unless she wins West Virginia and Kentucky as expected. Obama has won twice as many elections as Mrs. Clinton and leads her in both pledged and super delegates. I don''t prefer Mrs. Clinton for my president, but she is a brilliant and tireless woman. Jimmy Carter has used his platform to help heal the world one person at a time. I would so love to see Mrs. Clinton begin to do that kind of work in the world. I would follow her around with my check book and be grateful that I was allowed to support her work. Please dear, let me work for you for you have so much to offer away from politics.

[kstar42]

Everyone will be eye balling barack come november...check out this site..

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[rufisgufis]

Obama leads in number of super delegates.

Obama leads in number of states won.

Obama leads in number of caucuses

Obama leads in the popular vote


Hillary leads in number of lies told.

[rowdytexan2]

Chin up Hillary! All the way to convention. If you can''t convince the bustwards in the DNC mafioso that YOU have the support of the majority, then it''s McCain for four years. Then we''ll clear out the cluster pluck that the DNC has become and get ya in 2012.

[eddynewhope]

RowdyTexan - LOL. Newsflash! Hillary DOESN''T have the support of the majority or else she would have at least one of the many metrics being used to measure this primary. Moron.

[agog2]

Come on now how dumb can you people really be? Only 13 percent of the people in this country are black. And those 13 percent are in the Democratic Party. That is the only reason that Obama has the votes he has now. The rest of the votes are coming from some of the college kids that have no idea about what this country was like before Bush was president. You no cheap gas, everyone had a good job lot of food on the table, a dollar was worth a dollar. Why He!! You could even travel over sea and if you were from America everyone liked you. But now all the college Kids know is Hip Hop and Rap and partying. If Obama gets to run on the Democratic ticket for President he will lose and McCain will be you%u2019re new President Bush for the next four years. Come on Democrats don%u2019t throw your vote away on Obama, which is why the Republican Party is hoping you will do. Remember Republicans control the Media like the TV, Radio, News papers that is why they are playing up Obama. Hillary Clinton is the one that they are afraid of because they know that she can win the general election.

[agog2]

Wake up Democratic Super delegates before it%u2019s too late cast your vote for Obama. You will be casting your vote for John McCain in November. Not until the inner core of the major cities clean up (The Hood) get rid of the drugs, drive by shootings, gangs and pimps, but most of all make it safe for a young white couple to walk the street after dark in the black neighborhood, will a black man or black woman ever be elected as president of the United States of America. Yes a lot of white people are afraid of blacks, but that is only because of the deep prejudice of blacks that live in the inner core of our major cities. Hillary Clinton can beat John McCain in November; don%u2019t waste your vote on Obama.

[truthyness]

VOTE FOR A REAL AMERICAN!!

IF NOT HILLARY, THEN McCAIN!!!