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By DAVID ESPO Associated Press May 8, 2008 Page 2 of 2 Additionally, his 240,000-vote victory in North Carolina, coupled with her narrow, 18,000-vote triumph in Indiana, all but assured Obama will finish the primary season with a lead in the cumulative popular vote. Five more states and Puerto Rico are yet to vote. But alone among them, Oregon figures prominently in any Democratic plan to amass 270 electoral votes in the fall, the number required to win the White House. Her persistent attempt to claim the unprovable, that she would more easily win in the fall than Obama, faded for reasons beyond her control. For members of Congress, in this case Democrats, electability begins and sometimes even ends at home. Which is why it did not pass unnoticed last weekend -- with Obama trying to fend off controversy stemming from his former pastor -- that a sustained conservative attempt to derail a Democratic House candidate in Louisiana by linking him to the presidential contender had fizzled. Democrat Don Cazayoux is ''with Barack Obama for a big government scheme'' for health insurance, said a television advertisement run by Freedom's Watch. ''Their plan raises income taxes and raises taxes on small business.'' Cazayoux won anyway, and now holds a House seat in the Baton Rouge area that had been in Republican hands for three decades. A separate ad, aired by the North Carolina Republican Party, showed Obama and his former preacher, as well as a brief video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. ''He's just too extreme for North Carolina,'' the narrator says in the 30-second spot. Because the commercial was aimed at both the Democrats in the state gubernatorial primary, its impact was unclear. Clinton vowed to press on, planting her flag in West Virginia, site of next week's contest, and announcing plans to visit other upcoming primary states on Thursday. She said controversies over the delegations from Michigan and Florida must be resolved. ''I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee and obviously I am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee,'' she said. That sounded fine to Rep. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania, an uncommitted superdelegate. ''I think most of us out of respect for her are content to wait a little longer,'' he said. --- EDITOR'S NOTE -- David Espo covers presidential politics for The Associated Press. >> Back -- Page 1 2 Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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