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Hillary to Obama: "It's Nowhere Near Over"

By Jeralyn

Hillary Clinton isn't falling for the media meme that Obama will have the nomination sewn up tomorrow night.

"You can declare yourself anything, but if you don't have the votes, it doesn't matter," Clinton said Monday in a satellite interview. "This is nowhere near over."

Hillary's campaign is right behind her:

"Senator Obama's plan to declare himself the Democratic nominee tomorrow night in Iowa is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton's 17 million supporters," said Clinton communications chief Howard Wolfson. "Premature victory laps and false declarations of victory are unwarranted."

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Hillary is heading to Florida Wednesday. Obama will be there as well.

As for the polls tomorrow:

According to polls, Clinton is expected to score a 20- to 30-point win in Kentucky, a largely white, largely working-class state whose demographics mirror West Virginia, which gave her a 41-point victory a week ago.

Oregon is a harder call, with some polls giving Obama a 20-point-plus lead and a pair of recent polls showing his margin shrinking to the 5-point range.

Hillary's campaign is predicting a big Obama win in Oregon:

"We don't trust those polls," said a top Clinton staffer. "He's going to win by high double digits."

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).