At the top of the week, speculation continues to surge around the state of the Clinton campaign. The Politico leads with a story on the increasingly "cash-strapped" Hillary campaign, which has reportedly "been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months." Meanwhile, the UK Telegraph speculates that the gender card is back in play:

Faced with a growing chorus to abandon the uphill battle against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton is falling back on what she sees as her trump card - her gender.

At other perilous junctures like the eve of the New Hampshire primary and the eve of Super Tuesday, the former First Lady highlighted her femininity during televised tearful moments. Now she is portraying the calls for her to quit as male chauvinism.

In comments leaked to the New York Times, Mrs Clinton is said to have told aides that she would not be "bullied out" of the White House race and in a conversation with two allies compared her plight to "big boys" trying to bully a woman.

This weekend, Clinton told the Washington Post she'd fare better than Obama against John McCain. "I have a better chance. You cannot as a Democrat win the White House without a very big women's vote. What I believe is that women will turn out for me."

With the latest Gallup poll numbers showing Obama in a ten-point lead, Clinton may be hoping for those women she's counting on to step things up a bit...