Unease among anxious Clinton backers

AS Hillary Clinton braced for a predicted presidential primary sweep by Barack Obama along the banks of the Potomac last night, her campaign reportedly is scrambling to comfort anxious donors and superdelegates who fear her campaign may be slipping out of her hands.

The Clinton campaign held a phone conference on Monday aimed at rallying the troops, but some of those on the call said afterward that there is unease among Ms Clinton’s supporters over what could become a big losing streak once yesterday’s results in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC are final, the New York Times reported.

“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” an anonymous superdelegate who supports Ms Clinton told the Times.