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Article: Symbolic victory in Puerto Rico Clinton claims she is winning the popular vote.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2008
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Byline: David Espo and Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic, victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination.
The former first lady won roughly two-thirds of the votes as she continued a strong run through the late primaries.
"We are winning the popular vote," Clinton told her supporters in San Juan. "Now there can be no doubt."
Before cheering supporters, she predicted she would have more combined votes than her rival when the primaries end Tuesday night, claimed ...