Instead, the Massachusetts senator enters a critical stretch of the campaign relegated to the murky middle. She has to convince voters she has a viable path to the nomination, even if that path is unclear. Her campaign has spent millions of dollars flexing organizational muscle throughout the country, but she's lagging in her own backyard ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
"I think it's going to be tough if she doesn't do well," said Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.
