Obama in striking distance of nomination as Clinton loans herself money to keep up campaign
Clinton in Ohio, Texas: End of the road?For weeks, his campaign has been bogged down as he struggled to explain remarks about ``bitter'' working-class voters, his relationship with a controversial pastor and why he does not wear a U.S. flag pin on his lapel.
At his North Carolina rally, he told supporters that his win was a victory against the ``politics of division and the politics of distraction.''
Even so, racial divisions were stark. In both states, Clinton won six in 10 white votes while Obama got nine in 10 black votes, exit polls indicated. But blacks comprised about a third of the voters in North Carolina _ nearly double their proportion in Indiana.
The weak U.S. economy has dominated the campaign. The candidates sparred in recent days over Clinton's call, amid surging gasoline prices, for a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax this summer. Clinton said it would help drivers; Obama ridiculed the proposal as a political stunt that would cost jobs.
The remainder of the primary schedule includes West Virginia, with 28 delegates on May 13; Oregon with 52 and Kentucky with 51 a week later; Puerto Rico with 55 delegates on June 1, and Montana with 16 and South Dakota with 15 on June 3.
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