(AFP) – May 7, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hillary Clinton loaned her White House campaign 6.4 million dollars over the last month from her personal fortune, aides said Wednesday, in the latest sign of woe for her fading presidential hopes.

Clinton, who loaned five million dollars to her campaign for the Democratic party's presidential nomination in January, was trounced by big-spending rival Barack Obama in North Carolina and took only a narrow win in Indiana in key nominating contests Tuesday.

The performance, which fell well short of her hopes for a "game-changer" result, left the New York Senator facing predictions that her chances of winning the Democratic nomination had all but disappeared.

Clinton loaned her effort five million dollars on April 11, eleven days before her win in the Pennsylvania primary rescued her campaign and unleashed a new spurt of fundraising.

She funnelled another one million dollars into the campaign account on May 1, and injected 425,000 dollars more on Monday, the aides said.

Clinton raised 10 million dollars online after the Pennsylvania primary, but was vastly outspent in Indiana and North Carolina by Obama who has put together a huge fundraising network with around 1.5 million donors.

The Illinois senator raised 234.8 million dollars since launching his campaign, up to April 1, according to the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC).

Clinton -- who had 175.7 million dollars up to the same point, had 10.3 million dollars in debts as of April 1.

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