Athens, W.V. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is counting on a victory in West Virginia, and it's her husband's job to run up the score.

Former President Bill Clinton traveled much of the state Thursday and Friday, hoping to inspire voters in out-of-the-way places like Sutton and Fayetteville.

He's hoping voters in West Virginia and Kentucky turn out in large enough numbers to silence some of the national speculation that his wife's bid for the democratic nomination is essentially finished.

He urged a huge crowd at Concord University last night to not believe commentators who say the race is over.

The Clinton Campaign is hoping that West Virginia -- a state rich in the white, older, working class voters who have doggedly supported Hillary Clinton -- will provide her campaign a lift after the damaging results of Tuesday's primaries.

Clinton lost North Carolina and won Indiana by too small a margin to derail rival Barack Obama's bid for the nomination.

Her husband plans to stop Friday in Madison, Williamson, Wayne, St. Albans and Ripley.

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