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After this week's contests Mr Obama has the majority of the pledged delegates.

Clinton has a majority of the pledged delegates as well, so there isn't really an argument based on electoral returns.

But with Barack Obama capturing the majority of the pledged delegates after the contests in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday, there appear to be few sands left in the hourglass for Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy.

Obama advisers see that day, when Oregon also votes, as the unofficial end of the primary season; they plan to declare victory then by stating that they have locked up a majority of the pledged delegates.

To assemble a majority of the pledged delegates going into the Party's convention, he needs to win about fifty-eight per cent of the delegates in the remaining contests.

Barack Obama is cruising to victory in Oregon, and he has secured a majority of the pledged delegates – those delegates who are elected in primaries and caucuses – who will attend the Democratic presidential nominating convention this summer.

But given that Mr. Obama has won a majority of the pledged delegates and also leads among superdelegates, Mrs. Clinton's effort suggests she has an additional objective in mind here.

But Clinton is also expected to clinch a majority of the pledged delegates after Tuesday's primaries.

Under a proportional rule it would be theoretically possible for Sanders to win if he did win a majority of the pledged delegates.

There, at a rally in Des Moines, he is expected to declare that he has secured a majority of the pledged delegates currently eligible to attend August's Democratic convention in Denver.

On the one hand, if no candidate received a majority of the pledged delegates, it is conceivable that enough of the super-delegates could commit to the candidate with a plurality of the pledged delegate and guarantee that candidate's nomination on the first ballot.