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OBAMA WINS BIG IN NORTH CAROLINA: Clinton narrowly takes Indiana; Illinois senator almost has Democratic nomination sewn up.
But as she's done all along, Clinton, who must think she's Rocky Balboa, just won't throw in the towel. She's vowed to keep her struggling campaign alive after narrowly defeating Obama in Indiana.
Up next are primary contests in West Virginia, next week, then May 20 in Oregon and Kentucky.
"We have seen that it's possible to overcome the politics of division and distraction, that it's possible to overcome the same old negative attacks that are always about scoring points and never about solving our problems," Obama said at a victory rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Illinois senator's 14-point victory in North Carolina was a dramatic comeback from a difficult campaign stretch that began last month with a big loss in Pennsylvania and was prolonged by the controversy over racially charged comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama, 46, sounded like he was already focused on the general election showdown with Republican McCain in November.
"This fall, we intend to march forward as one Democratic Party, united by a common vision for this country," said Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president.
The results from Tuesday's primarys meant Clinton, 60, missed her best chance to narrow Obama's lead in pledged delegates who will help pick the nominee at August's convention. She won Indiana by just 23,000 votes out of more than 1.25 million votes cast in the state, but promised to keep up the fight.
"It's full speed on to the White House," Clinton said at a victory rally in Indianapolis, with her husband former President Bill Clinton standing behind her. "We've got a long road ahead, but we're going to keep fighting."
With just 217 delegates at stake in the last six contests, Clinton has no realistic chance to overtake Obama's lead in pledged delegates or in popular votes won in the state-by-state battle for the nomination that began in January.
Obama now has 1,876 total delegates to Clinton's 1,729, still short of the 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination.
"We're nearing the finish line," Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod told reporters. "I think we've taken another big step down the road here to ending this contest and beginning the general election campaign."
Clinton still hopes to find a way to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida, where she won contests in January that are not recognized by the national party because of a dispute over when they were held.
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