Monday 02 June 2008
by Toby Harnden, The Telegraph UK
Senior advisers to Senator Hillary Clinton have prepared the ground for her to abandon her 2008 presidential ambitions
within days and not dispute the Democratic nomination all the way to the party convention in August.
Although she won by a wide margin over Barack Obama in yesterday's Puerto Rico primary - with 85 per cent of the vote
in, she was leading by 36 percentage points - the former First Lady made no mention in her victory speech of taking her
fight beyond this week.
Instead, she made a final appeal to some 178 uncommitted "super-delegates" - party officials whose convention votes are
not tied to the primaries - that she would be the stronger general election candidate against John McCain, the
presumptive Republican nominee.
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