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Hillary Rodham Clinton made one last campaign push in Arizona Saturday night, rallying a crowd in Tucson — the spot where her supporters believe the state's Tuesday Democratic presidential preference election will be won or lost.

Speaking in front of an estimated crowd of 4,300 at the University of Arizona's Bear Down Gymnasium, Clinton called on supporters to pick the presidential candidate "who is most likely to change our country."

And Clinton did something she and rival Barack Obama have mostly avoided in rallies — she invoked Obama's name, criticizing his health-care agenda.

"He doesn't have a universal health-care plan, and I think as a Democrat, if we're going to run against the Republicans, let's run on our principles," she said, pointing to one of the few substantive policy differences in the contest.

Obama does have a health-care plan he says will cover all those who are uninsured. In fact, a year ago, Obama delivered a speech in which he said, "The time has come for universal health care." But Clinton wants to require people to purchase health care, and argues Obama's plan won't cover all Americans. She and Obama also both want to allow people to buy into the same health-care plan that members of Congress receive, or chose to keep the insurance plan they have.

"Unless we get everybody covered with insurance we'll never be able to improve health care, reduce costs," Clinton said at Saturday's rally. "We'll never be able to rein in the insurance companies because they'll always be able to cherry-pick."

Traveling with the New York senator was daughter Chelsea, who mostly stood on the sidelines. But the former first daughter garnered some of the loudest applause of the night when she began delivering water bottles to a few people who became faint from the heat in the tightly packed gym.

The Tucson visit is strategic. Clinton rode high on solid polling numbers in Arizona through 2007, but recently she has seen that lead slip. Though her state organization is based in Phoenix, her Tucson supporters see Southern Arizona as key to who will win the popular vote here on Tuesday night. About 20 percent of registered Democrats in Arizona live in Pima County, while only about 14 percent of Republicans are in the region.

Arizona is one of 22 states with Democratic primaries or caucuses Tuesday, and Clinton's visit — her second to the state in little more than week — is the latest in what was been a busy month of political activity here.

For months the Democratic candidates made little criticisms of each other, but lately Clinton and Obama have sought to draw differences. Obama criticized Clinton in his speech in Phoenix Wednesday. Though never using her name, the references were unmistakable.

And at Saturday evening's rally, Clinton stressed her ability to get the job done if she's elected president, listing a series of issues the next president will have to fix.

"I think there's something to the idea that it takes a Clinton to fix a Bush," she said, referring to the fact that her husband, Bill Clinton, was president after President George W. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush.

"We've been waiting for change for seven years," Clinton said. "On January 20, 2009, the next president of the United States is going to be swornin, and we're gonna say goodbye to George Bush."

In the 35-minute speech, Clinton also outlined economic policies, calling for the need to go "back to balanced budgets and surpluses."

Clinton said the government needs to invest more in renewable and alternative energy, creating "green-collar jobs." She pointed to efforts in Germany and said, "Last time I looked, Germany didn't have as many sunny days as Arizona has."

On StarNet: Watch a slide show from Hillary Clinton's Saturday stop in Tucson at azstarnet.com/slideshows.