In 2008, Clinton lost the race not in January but in February when a series of heavily Republican states held caucuses in which Obama swamped her. It was in February when Obama built the delegate lead he would never relinquish. There was no such run of states this time around.
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Hillary Clinton won many primaries, but lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama during the 2008 United States presidential election.
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