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Article: Obama captures Oregon, holds a majority of pledged delegates ; Resolute Clinton wins handily in Ky.

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CAMPAIGN 2008

WASHINGTON - Senator Barack Obama last night passed a key, though symbolic, milestone in his quest for the White House - winning a majority of all pledged delegates at stake in primaries and caucuses - and gave a sweeping speech all but claiming the Democratic nomination.

Even though Senator Hillary Clinton trounced him in the Kentucky primary, Obama still picked up a portion of the delegates there, and he also won the day's other primary, in Oregon. That gave him more than half of the 3,253 delegates being chosen by voters in the long season of primaries and caucuses - and left him within about 70 delegates of officially clinching the nomination.

Returning to Iowa, the state ...

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