Former President Clinton campaigns in Kentucky

PADUCAH, 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 thousands on Friday at rallies in a fire station parking lot in Madisonville, a gymnasium at Kentucky Wesleyan College and a Paducah convention center.

Bill Clinton also stressed Kentucky could be a linchpin 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 at Kentucky Wesleyan in Owensboro.

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. The telephone survey conducted May 7-9 has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

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.