Hillary Clinton. - Photo courtesy hillaryclinton.com image:35413:6::0

I heard Harold Ford say on MSNBC Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton would have to gather 70-75 percent of the vote in West Virginia, Oregon, South Dakota, Montana, Kentucky and Puerto Rico to overtake Barack Obama's delegate lead. Former president Bill Clinton apparently believes that she can do this nearly insurmountable feat.

The former president campaigned hard in West Virginia today which is the site of the next Democratic presidential primary state on Tuesday, May 13. His first stop was to a cheering crowd of over 500 people in the City Hall gym of Phillippi, West Virginia. Bill Clinton clearly plans to pressure the Democratic National Committee as well as the Florida and Michigan state parties to make sure that his wife wins those states.

The former president explained to the crowd his version of why Hillary lost North Carolina: ''All the parts of North Carolina that look like West Virginia she won like a house on fire. And she did pretty well in other places. What happened is, a fourth of the people voted in advance and she lost that vote 2 to 1 'cause we weren't there and she didn't have the money. But when she got there, the actual election day vote, from the best I can calculate it, was about seven percent which, given the Democratic break-up, make-up of North Carolina, is a huge, huge showing.''

Bill basically begged the crowd to vote for Hillary on May 13 in overwhelming numbers, which is her only hope now. He focused on unifying rural and urban America and said that prosperity should include small-town America as well.