Clinton plugs away as time grows short in race

By Ellen Wulfhorst

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (Reuters) - With time running out on her White House campaign, Hillary Clinton plugged away on Sunday in her uphill battle to overtake Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

"It's not enough to show up and cheer," the former first lady exhorted a rally at Western Kentucky University. "You've got to get out and vote. You've got to bring everybody you can find to vote."

The New York senator started her day by attending church and then headed off to "Get Out the Vote" rallies in Kentucky, which along with Oregon holds Democratic contests on Tuesday.

Obama holds a commanding lead in the pledged delegates to this summer's party convention that will pick a candidate to run against Republican John McCain in November. While Clinton was expected to win handily in Kentucky, Obama was ahead in the polls in Oregon, leaving only three more primaries before the party voting ends on June 3.

At a fundraiser in Oregon on Saturday night, Obama predicted he would win in the state and get enough national convention delegates to "put us over the top."

His campaign seemed confident of achieving enough delegates to win the nomination at August's convention that the Illinois senator planned to be in Iowa on Tuesday to celebrate where his first victory in January launched his campaign.

All polls are closed in Kentucky at 7 p.m. EDT and Oregon at 8 p.m. PDT/11 p.m. Results are expected shortly after.

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