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Clinton spends $5 million to keep up with Obama

Facing a cash crunch, Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million in January and several top staffers are foregoing salaries this month to help her compete with a far better financed Barack Obama.

News of Clinton's financial woes came as a Gallup daily tracking poll showed Clinton with a 13-point lead over the Illinois senator nationally -- a huge bump over polls taken last week...

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