The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, Shepherdstown

Democrat Hillary Clinton Wednesday vowed she would not quit the party's bitter White House race, but faced mounting pressure to step aside in favor of a resurgent Barack Obama. "I am staying in this race until there is a nominee," Clinton told reporters in West Virginia, which holds its presidential primary next Tuesday. "I am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee."

Clinton leapt straight back onto the campaign trail with a hastily arranged stop here, after being trounced by Obama in Tuesday's North Carolina primary and winning by only a hair's breadth in Indiana.

But some of the fire seemed to have seeped out of the New York senator, as she reeled off a toned-down version of her stump speech. Significantly, she did not once mention or attack her rival.