[Harris:] Presidential politics now. The Democrats in Florida today after a split decision. Obama wins Oregon and marks a milestone. Clinton takes Kentucky and vows to keep going. Jim Acosta is live in horse country there. He is in Lexington, Kentucky. Jim, last hour you said the race continues. We have to be in the final stretch, aren't we?
[Jim Acosta, Cnn Correspondent:] Down the stretch they come.
[Harris:] Down the stretch.
[Acosta:] After nearly five months of primaries across the country, Tony, just three contests left, two of them states, one of them Puerto Rico. And you are right, Barack Obama reached a pretty significant milestone last night. No Democrat has reached a pledge delegate majority and then have not gone on to capture the nomination. And so Barack Obama has that notch in his belt. The New York senator, Hillary Clinton, she did score a big victory here in Kentucky, beating Barack Obama by 35 points. But Senator Obama did not do too badly up in Oregon, beating Clinton handedly there and achieving that pledge delegate majority. But at her victory speech last night in Louisville, Senator Clinton she suggested that she had two other states on her mind, Michigan and Florida and those disputed delegates there. She told her supporters that she still sees a path, even though it is a dubious one, to the nomination.
[Sen. Hillary Clinton , Presidential Candidate:] And I am going to keep standing up for the voters of Florida and Michigan. I'm going to keep making our case until we have a nominee, whoever she may be.
[Acosta:] And Clinton's victory here in Kentucky, as in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, underscored Barack Obama's weakness with working class white voters. That is a task that he is going to have to take on over the coming weeks and months. Hillary Clinton also revealed to Obama again that he also has work to do with women's voters. Although, he is making strides on that front and he suggested last night that Hillary Clinton is breaking barriers at that big rally that he held in Des Moines, Iowa, last night. He, once again, touted the milestone that he has reached for this campaign.
[Sen. Barack Obama , Presidential Candidate:] Tonight, Iowa, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with the majority of delegates, elected by the American people. And you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America.
[Acosta:] And as we have been talking about all morning, both Clinton and Obama are heading down to Florida to campaign down there. But it's very interesting and very telling what they will be doing in the sunshine state. Hillary Clinton talking very much about the past and those dubious disputed delegates in Florida and Michigan. Obama is looking to the future and the upcoming general contest that is all but apparently shaping up with John McCain down there in the sunshine state. It will be one of those big battlegrounds, Tony. If Barack Obama can win Florida in the general election, it is going to be very hard for John McCain to win this fall.
[Harris:] Now, you make a good case. All right. Jim Acosta for us this morning from Lexington, Kentucky. Jim, thanks.
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