Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham

Clinton was the first girl to run within the main or caucus of every state and she eclipsed, by a very wide margin, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 marks for most votes garnered and delegates received by a girl. Clinton gave a passionate speech supporting Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and campaigned incessantly for him in fall 2008, which concluded along with his victory over McCain within the basic election on November four. Clinton's campaign ended up severely in debt; she owed tens of millions of dollars to exterior distributors and wrote off the $13 million that she lent it herself. The Clinton campaign had counted on profitable the nomination by Super Tuesday and was unprepared financially and logistically for a protracted effort; lagging in Internet fundraising as Clinton started loaning money to her campaign. There was steady turmoil throughout the marketing campaign staff, and she made several top-level personnel changes. Obama gained the following eleven February contests across the nation, usually by large margins and took a big pledged _ _ _ _ _ _delegate lead over Clinton.