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5-8-08
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Obama Says He Won't Take Nomination for Granted
Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday he wouldn't take his party's nomination for granted as he still tries to win over superdelegates following his Tuesday win in North Carolina.
He said rival Sen. Hillary Clinton is likely to win West Virginia and Kentucky, which hold their primaries in the next two weeks.
Obama created a stir Thursday during an unannounced visit to the House during votes, which lasted a half hour.
Earlier, Obama's campaign said he planned to declare victory in the nomination race May 20, not long after polls close in Kentucky and Oregon.
"On May 20 we're going to declare victory," said a source close to the campaign, who requested anonymity, Politico.com reported.
But the Clinton campaign plans to dispute that declaration, said the politics Web site.
The Obama campaign agrees with the Democratic National Committee, which pegs a winning majority at 2,025 pledged delegates and superdelegates--a figure that excludes the penalized Florida and Michigan delegations.
But the Clinton campaign says the winner will need 2,209 to cinch the nomination--a tally that includes Florida and Michigan.
"We don't accept 2,025. It is not the real number because that does not include Florida and Michigan," Howard Wolfson, one of Clinton's two chief strategists, told Politico.com. "It's a phony number."
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