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With a new poll showing their race in a virtual dead heat nationally, the Democratic presidential candidates are making their final pitches Monday to voters before Super Tuesday.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made campaign swings in the Northeast as nearly two dozen states get ready to hold contests in what will virtually be a national primary.

At a roundtable discussion in New Haven, Connecticut, Clinton returned to two issues she repeatedly has touched on, health care and the economic concerns of the middle class.

"Most Americans are in-between people," she said. "You know, the middle class is under tremendous pressure. It is everything. The cost of everything is going up. And even if you make what used to be considered good wages, they don't cover the increase in costs, in everything from energy to health care." Watch Clinton stump for votes

During the roundtable discussion at Yale University, Clinton became teary-eyed -- a moment that harkened back to her much talked-about display of emotion on the eve of the New Hampshire primary -- when she was introduced by Penn Rhodeen, a public interest lawyer who worked with Clinton when she was in college. Watch Clinton get personal Read full article »

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