senator barack obama started this day in
the lead and he said his opponent did
not get the game changer she would need
to grab the momentum but Senator Hillary
Clinton said she would continue going
full speed toward the democratic party
nomination for president the two states
are in different regions of the country
with differing voting populations Obama
won North Carolina in the southern US on
the strength of overwhelming support
from african-american voters he spoke in
the capital Raleigh I want to thank them
for giving us a victory in a big state
and Obama told jubilant supporters he
needs fewer than 200 delegates to win
the party's nomination in August Indiana
in the Midwest is home to a sizeable
group of white working-class voters
Clinton won a majority of them and spoke
from Indianapolis and thanks to you it's
full speed on to the White House Clinton
pledged to fight on verge supporters to
contribute cash to her campaign Indiana
voters saw two candidates in a
hard-fought campaign in the past several
weeks that Clinton narrowly won it's her
experience and she has positions that I
can agree with on primary day Clinton
visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
in the campaign she had advocated
suspending the federal gas tax to give
consumers for break from record high
prices Obama started the day eating eggs
with voters at an Indiana diner he had
emphasized the plight of working-class
voters but was in North Carolina where
voters stood in line that Obama won a
convincing victory he's a consensus
builder and I feel a lot of the other
candidates are kind of divisive still
Obama's relationship with his fiery
former pastor the Reverend Jeremiah
Wright was a factor nearly half the
voters told pollsters the situation I
was very important to that after the
voting Obama turned his attention to the
presumptive Republican nominee he said
senator john mccain is too close to
President George
on issues like the war in Iraq the
economy and energy policy we can't
afford to give John McCain the chance to
serve out George Bush a third term we
need change in America and that's why we
will be united in November Clinton also
spoke of party unity no matter what
happens I will work for the nominee of
the Democratic Party because we must
Democrats vote in five more states by
june third but neither is expected to
capture enough delegates for the
nomination by then party leaders say the
uncommitted super delegates are likely
to decide the race Jim Frey VOA news
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