While she has appeared strong in public, and vowing to push on through to the next set of primaries in Pennsylvania in elsewhere, she seemed to repeat a lament she had made through earlier losses in saying that she favored primaries over caucuses. (We know, her rival Senator Obama does better at caucuses.)

“When the dust clears on this campaign, we have to ask some hard questions about what is the best way to maximize the turnout of people who want to participate in picking the next president,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And I started saying months ago that it bothers me that if you have a limited window of time, if they’re out of town, if they’re in the military,
they’re disenfranchised.

“We have to ask some hard questions. But for now we’re going to play by the rules that we have and play to the best of our ability.”