Obama set to increase lead
Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2008 | 3:30 PM
US presidential candidate Barack Obama looks set to increase his lead for the Democratic party in the up-coming Kentucky and Oregon primaries.
Obama needs 2,026 votes to win the party\'s nomination and is expected to make up any shortfall by securing a majority of the pledged delegates.
Polls in both Kentucky and Oregon opened this morning with Obama holding a total of 1,915 votes to his rival Hillary Clinton’s 1,721.
Though correspondents said it is highly unlikely for Senator Clinton to garner enough votes to top Obama, Mrs. Clinton has insisted that the race is still not over.
Republican candidate John McCain has already begun targeting Obama as his probable opponent in November.
On Monday, he criticised Obama for suggesting that Iran does not pose the same level of threat to the US as the former Soviet Union once did.