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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is moving ahead of his rival Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House. Mr Obama has built a solid lead over Mrs Clinton in the past few months. He won a landslide victory in the contest for North Carolina last Tuesday, while Senator Clinton narrowly hung on to win Indiana, a state in which she was hoping for a big win. Her narrow margin of victory strengthened Obama’s campaign. Many analysts predicted the Indiana result was the beginning of the end for Mrs Clinton, who looked tired and lacked enthusiasm in her victory speech. Barack is also winning the contest for the votes of the nearly 800 super-delegates - party officials who will probably decide whether Mr Obama or Ms Clinton runs for President in November.
There are still six more states that are yet to vote for their presidential nominee. It seems likely that the race between the two candidates will go right to the wire. However, more and more people now predict that Obama will win the right to challenge Republican John McCain to be America’s 44th President. On Friday, a former candidate in the race, John Edwards, said that Senator Obama was now the party's "likely presidential nominee". This is another blow to Mrs Clinton’s campaign. She is now running out of big-name supporters as well as money. She must dip into her own personal fortune if she wants to continue on the campaign trail. She suggested she would join forces with Obama if she lost the race. “We will stand together and…go on to the White House,” she said.
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