Obama and Clinton on the home stretch Zuzana Zelenakova

The race between two Democrat presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is gradually getting to the home stretch. And although it is obvious that Senator for Illinois Barack Obama is ahead of Clinton in the race she insists that the end of this marathon for the party's nomination is far from over and keeps fighting. These days the two candidates have been focused on the primary voters in Kentucky and Oregon. And it seems Senator Obama is pretty sure he gets the majority of elected delegates. According to the latest polls the former first lady is about to win in Kentucky and her rival will probably celebrate his success in Oregon. “This is nowhere near over,” said New York Senator Clinton and thus giving a clear message to all those who called for her to quit the race. Whoever wins the nomination of the Democratic party is going to face Republican John McCain in general election. In general, experts think that at this point it is rather certain that Obama is to become the first African-American presidential nominee in history. And only some fatal error could stop him which is highly improbable. In Kentucky polls will stay open till 7 p.m. EDT and voting in Oregon will end at 8 p.m. EDT. Obama's campaign manager David Pouff said that once the votes are counted in Kentucky and Oregon he will most probably secure the majority of pledged delegates. According to Obama's campaign he needs only 16 more pledged delegates to have this majority. Of course Clinton does not like such talks and she strongly disagrees with them. She says there are still voters in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota that might change the course of things. “Declaring mission accomplished does not make it so,” stated Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson.

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by Zuzana Zelenakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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