Obama 'nomination within reach'
Updated on 21 May 2008
Barack Obama says the Democratic nomination for president is within reach, as he wins in Oregon but loses Kentucky. The race issue still proving a huge hurdle to vault. Sue Turton reports.
It's official... almost. Barack Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates in the Democratic primary process.
But the presumed Democratic nominee for the US presidency stopped short of declaring out-and-out victory.
And he was full of praise for his rival Hillary Clinton, who did win one of yesterday's two state contests, and who's still vowing to fight on.
