CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this morning brought her embattled presidential campaign to the Capitol dome of West Virginia, promising to give West Virginians "a president who never gives up."

To a crowd forced inside by the weather, she ticked off her plans for overhauling the health care system, easing the burden of college costs, and ending the war in Iraq.

On her second stop in West Virginia since a disappointing finish Tuesday night in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries and trailing Sen. Barack Obama in both total delegates and total popular vote, she repeated that she was not about to drop out.

"Some people think it's time to end this race," Mrs. Clinton said. "I think we want to keep this going so the voices of the people of West Virginia are heard."

Saying that West Virginia will play an important role in the November general election, Mrs. Clinton said the Democratic party has "let West Virginia slip away" and could not afford to do so again.

She said West Virginians represent the "backbone' of the party.

"I know the delegate math may be complicated, but the electoral map isn't," she said.

Polls have shown Mrs. Clinton to have a lead of more than 30 percentage points over Sen. Barack Obama in West Virginia, a state where Mr. Obama is running television ads but hasn't scheduled any visits so far.

"I take polls with a grain of salt," Mrs. Clinton said. "They say I'm doing well here, but I want to do really well here."