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Today the Clinton campaign held a “State of the Race” conference call. Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman and Phil Singer, Deputy Communications Director, were both on hand to comment. McAuliffe started off by discussing last night and the scope of their victory. He stated that Clinton won by 41 percent and that, “we are in this thing.” The campaign also posted a seven figure plus day for online contributions and the top forty to fifty financial contributors to the campaign were going to meet with the campaign today. McAuliffe made sure to say that there is tremendous enthusiasm within the campaign and that the issue is, “who is it that can best win the general election?”

Phil Singer spoke next on the conference call. He again applauded their victory last night noting that it was in a key swing state. He mentioned the fact that no democrat has won the White House since Wilson in 1916 without taking West Virginia. Singer also made the claim that Clinton can take WV against McCain and mentioned that there are still five contests left. With the campaigns continual push to have the votes from Michigan and Florida to be counted, the staff is relentless is making this come to fruition, all while saying, “those votes out to be honored.”