Washington: Despite a crashing defeat to Democratic foe Barack Obama in the first caucuses in Iowa, the Clinton campaign is confident of her winning the rest of the primary battles leading up to the February 5 contest, when over 20 states will vote, to decide presidential candidates.

"New Hampshire is a different constituency from Iowa. So is South Carolina and Nevada. Then you get to these big states on Feb 5. In terms of media as well as ground organization, the Clinton organization is clearly superior," a senior Clinton campaign staffer Don Fowler said.

"Senator Hillary Clinton, as a leader, applies in a much more comprehensive way across all of these constituencies than any other of our candidates. We have good candidates, but she clearly spreads effective than the other candidates, he said.

In fact top operatives of the Clinton campaign in a teleconference call have argued that the New York Democratic Senator exceeded targets in Iowa.

"We are through with Iowa. We hit and exceeded our target numbers that we wanted in Iowa. The good news for us is about 225,000-plus people showed up, which I think is very -- is great for us, as we head toward the general election," top Clinton operative and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Terry Macauliffe said.

"Along the road, there will be ups and downs..," he said ahead of primaries next week in New Hampshire, a state which revived her spouse Bill Clinton's run up to the Democratic nomination in 1992 after he barely barely got three per cent of the caucus votes in Iowa.

The Clinton campaign is making the point that their's is the only campaign focussed on a national strategy from the beginning; that it did not put all the marbles in Iowa and come February 5 -- the strength of the national organisation will show.

Source : PTI