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President Clinton: Wife Must Win Texas and Ohio

By THE NEW YORK SUN | February 20, 2008

President Clinton cast his wife's chances for the Democratic nomination in plain terms yesterday: She must win Texas and Ohio, or else. "If she wins Texas and Ohio, I think she'll be the nominee," Mr. Clinton told a rally in Beaumont, Texas, according to ABC News. "If you don't deliver for her, then I don't think she can be. It's all on you." Senator Obama of Illinois has won the past 10 contests over the former first lady and has increased his lead in delegates. Advisers to Senator Clinton stopped just short of making the same declaration yesterday in a conference call with reporters. "I'm not going to make any Namathesque predictions, but they are critically, critically important," a spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said of Texas and Ohio.

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