Obama crosses key threshold

A split decision in the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday pushed Barack Obama across an important threshold, giving him a majority of elected delegates and bolstering his claim to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Hillary Rodham Clinton swept Kentucky by a 2-1 margin, vowing at a victory rally in Louisville that she would stay in the race at least through closing contests in Montana and South Dakota in two weeks.

Even so, Obama marked his Oregon victory with a rally in Des Moines, returning to the state where the opening Iowa caucuses four months ago sent his presidential bid soaring. He sought to pivot from a fierce primary fight to a general-election battle against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.


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