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...worked my butt off. Everybody did," said Lee Dixon, 60, a Clinton volunteer in the Ohio capital, as she shuffled toward the door after last night's victory rally. "People are tired. But we are happy...
...weeks had taken their toll. Senator Barack Obama had drawn closer to Clinton in the polls, and a number of Clinton's longtime allies were calling on her to quit the race. "We've all been a little worried, honestly," said Sherry Pickens, 49, a postal worker from Pataskala, Ohio who has volunteered to work phone banks for Clinton the last few weeks. "Around the campaign office, it really felt like we hit a low point last week...
...sent signals to Canada that Obama's tough talk on NAFTA was merely political posturing. By last weekend, the sting of eleven straight primary losses had faded, and Clinton volunteers say they felt renewed confidence. "Right after the Wisconsin primary there was an eroding of her poll numbers in Ohio," said Ted Strickland, Ohio's governor. "The closer we got to election day, the better I felt...
...With the two candidates close in the polls, the final results depended on grassroots efforts to get people out to vote. That task was complicated yesterday by terrible weather all across Ohio, with ice storms in Cleveland, driving rain in Columbus and flooding across the southern part of the state. By the time Clinton spoke to the faithful in Columbus, the rain had stopped, and it was clear that she had won Ohio by a comfortable margin. "For everybody in Ohio who's been counted out but refused to give up, this win is for you," Clinton said during...
...Clinton and her surrogates were busy preparing her supporters and the nation for the fact that the Democratic primary battle was not yet finished. Some Democratic Party leaders, including Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, had called on Clinton to pull out of the race if she lost in Ohio. With John McCain now assured of winning the Republican Party nomination, they worried that a protracted battle between the Democratic frontrunners would divert finite money and time away from preparing for the general election...