Former President Clinton campaigns in Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Bill Clinton, in a second day of campaign stops in Kentucky for his wife before Tuesday’s primary election, continued to urge voters to look past the condemnations of her campaign as a failed effort.

Sen. Hillary Clinton can win the nomination, the former president told more than 1,000 supporters who rallied Friday in a gymnasium at Kentucky Wesleyan College despite trailing Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in delegates.

Bill Clinton stressed Kentucky is poised to be a lynchpin in the presidential primary season.

“If someone tells you you can’t win, it’s because you can and they’re afraid you will,” Clinton said to cheers.

Results from a media poll released earlier this week show Hillary Clinton with a 27 percentage-point lead in Kentucky over Obama. The Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll of 500 likely Democratic voters showed 58 percent favoring Clinton, 31 percent favoring Obama and 11 percent uncommitted.

Hillary Clinton has won the endorsement of three of Kentucky’s Democratic superdelegates. Obama has been endorsed by two, both Democratic congressmen representing the state’s two largest cities. Three other superdelegates remain undecided.

That indecision, however, appears to have lingered among voters.

Hours before Bill Clinton’s stop at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, lines of supporters looped through the grassy clearing outside the gymnasium where he spoke. But more seemed interested in him than his wife, or undecided still in the final days of the campaign in Kentucky.

“I’m going back and forth between Hillary and Obama,” said Mary Pat Gray, 52, a retired school guidance counselor from Owensboro. “I’m going out and getting information — keeping my mind open.”

Bill and Hillary Clinton and their daughter Chelsea have all campaigned in the state trying to sway undecided voters this year leading up to next Tuesday’s primary election.

Bill Clinton’s stops on Friday also include Madisonville, Paducah, Murray and Hopkinsville. On Thursday, eh campaigned in Louisville, Bardstown, where more than 400 people packed into an auditorium at Nelson County High School, and ended the night in Elizabethtown, where a crowd of nearly 1,000.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced late Thursday that she will return to the state to campaign on Saturday at a site to be determined.