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Last Modified: 04 Jun 2008
By: Sarah Smith

Hillary Clinton went from front runner to runner-up in just five months. Sarah Smith reports on a campaign that unravelled.

From the start, she was the front runner in the race for the Democratic nomination, a candidate whose victory was portrayed as all but inevitable.

But five months after the first primary vote in Iowa defeat appears all but certain.

It's a bitter blow for the former first lady, who has fought a tough, divisive and at times personal campaign, winning millions of votes in the process.

So where did it all go wrong?