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Article: Clinton vows to keep running as Obama nears milestone
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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Washington, May 21 -- Hillary Clinton vowed to continue her uphill battle in the Democratic presidential race after a facile victory in the Kentucky primary even as rival Barack Obama tightened his grip on the trophy with a projected win in Oregon.
The former first lady's victory in Kentucky Tuesday by a decisive 35 point margin is unlikely to keep Obama from reaching a coveted milestone in the race: capturing a majority of his party's pledged delegates in primaries and caucuses.
Winning Kentucky by 65 percent to 30 percent with support from the state's white working-class voters, Clinton told a cheering crowd that "we've ...