CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – As always, Senator Clinton laid out her plans for universal health care, the economy and ending the war in Iraq when she was in Charleston Thursday.

But she also spent some time defending her decision to stay in the race. That's because some have said she can no longer win because the math is in Senator Obama's favor.

WSAZ’s Michael Wooten spoke with Senator Clinton after the event.

She's determined to win West Virginia and even though there are only 28 delegates up for grabs, hopes a big victory could change the race.

By all accounts Senator Clinton should get a big victory in West Virginia. The polls show her up 2 to 1 here and the demographics favor her.

But the question remains even with big margins in West Virginia and Kentucky can she close the gap? Her campaign says yes and Senator Clinton told Michael she believes she will.

When asked how she saw the race playing out and if there is a path to the nomination said she said, “Absolutely. I think that if you look at where we are, it's still very close. I won Indiana, which Senator Obama said would be the tie-breaker. Everybody knew he was going to win North Carolina, and I won Pennsylvania. I won the big states that we have to have to anchor a successful election in November."

That's Senator Clinton's main selling point to the so-called super delegates who will decide the race.

She says she's more electable than Senator Obama, who will struggle in places like West Virginia and Ohio and Pennsylvania. These are place where there are a lot of rural, working class voters who have not shown a lot of support to Obama yet.

Senator Obama's response is that he can win over those voters in the general election. But as far as the primary goes, he does not have a trip scheduled to our region. Instead, he's campaigning Friday in Oregon, which votes a week after West Virginia. His campaign says he will be here before the primary, but again, nothing is scheduled yet.