Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit

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"We need to bring back hardworking people to the Democratic Party," the New York senator said. "I'm winning Catholic voters and Hispanic voters, blue-collar workers and seniors. People Senator McCain will need in the general election."

She added, "Some call you swing voters. I call you Americans."

At a rally at an airport hangar in Sioux Falls, Clinton said, "There are some folks arguing we should stop voting," Clinton said, eliciting boos. South Dakota and Montana cast the last primary votes June 3.

In Sioux Falls, Gabriella Collignon said there was no way Clinton should drop out.

"I think it shows a lot about her personality that she's going to keep going," Collignon said.

West Virginia's demographic makeup of white, older voters favors Clinton. During her appearance Thursday, she offered the same populist pitch she began making in the closing days before Indiana and North Carolina voted.

She renewed her call for a summertime holiday for the federal gasoline tax, with oil companies making up the difference, a proposal that many economists and Obama have dismissed as a meaningless pander.

The West Virginia rally was the first event on Clinton's exceptionally busy campaign schedule Thursday. She also planned an appearance in Oregon.

She is favored to win West Virginia's primary but has fallen further behind Obama in delegates won in primaries and caucuses. Her hopes for the Democratic nomination rest on strong showings in the remaining six contests to convince more than 200 party elders and other "superdelegates" to support her.

Obama met in Washington with superdelegate members of Congress, telling them it was now time to declare for him. He picked up support from at least two superdelegates: Reps. Brad Miller of North Carolina, where Obama handily won the primary this week, and Rick Larsen of Washington state.

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