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Clinton spoke with reporters in San Juan after her Puerto Rico victory before taking off on a 6 hour flight to South Dakota — telling them “my political obituary has yet to be written.”

“I think I have a stronger case than a lot of people who press their case much further,” she said. “Its not over ’til its over.”

Clinton said she expected to add 133,000 votes onto her popular vote lead coming out of Puerto Rico, and hoped it would signal her relative strength in November. “Senator Obama a few months ago said that this will come down to whoever has the popular vote and the delegates, because they’ve never been separated before. And I think it’s only now that we are finishing these contests that people are going to actually reflect who’s our stronger candidate,” she said. “I believe I am, and I’m going to make that case. And at some point, it will either be accepted or it wont. But I feel very strongly about making it.”

Her audience is the ever-shrinking group of uncommitted superdelegates, of which she’ll need nearly 90% to win the nomination. But Clinton pointed out that even committed superdelegates can change their minds. “With us in the front of the cabin is a superdelegate that went from me to Senator Obama and now is back with me in the course of a matter of weeks,” she said — referring to Virgin Islands superdelegate Kevin Rodriquez. “This has been such an intense process I don’t think that has been a lot of time for reflection of the sort that I’m advocating.

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