Looks like AP is calling it for Obama officially. Article:
AP: Obama has delegates to clinch nomination
Clinton sources say she's ready to acknowledge rival has delegates
CHICAGO - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, citing its tally of convention delegates. He would become the first black candidate ever to lead a major U.S. party into a fall campaign for the White House.
Hillary Rodman Clinton, answering a question she has sidestepped in the past, said she would consider being Obama's vice presidential candidate if it would help the Democrats win the White House in November.
NBC News has been maintaining its own tally of delegates, which stood at Obama being 27.5 delegates short of the 2,118 needed.
The AP tally was based on public declarations from delegates as well as from another 18 who have confirmed their intentions to the AP. It also included five delegates Obama was guaranteed as long as he gained 15 percent of the vote in South Dakota and Montana later in the day. It takes 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination.
NBC News said it would not confirm Obama as the presumptive nominee until all private commitments by delegates were made public.
Two sources with the Clinton campaign said earlier Tuesday she will acknowledge that Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. Her campaign did not deny this, but said she would not concede the nomination.
The different messages from her campaign, including Clinton's own acknowledgement that she would be open to a vice presidential spot on the ticket, seemed to indicate her efforts to keep her options open, even as superdelegates lined up behind Obama.
Clinton's remarks about the vice presidential spot came in a conference call with other New York lawmakers, in response to a question from Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, who said she believed the best way for Obama to win over key voting blocs, including Hispanics, would be for him to choose Clinton as his running mate.
"I am open to it," Clinton replied, if it would help the party's prospects in November.
Earlier Tuesday, Harold Ickes, a top campaign official, said Clinton would not drop out of the race after the day's primaries in Montana and South Dakota.
Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told the "Today" show that once Obama gets the majority of delegates, "I think Hillary Clinton will congratulate him and call him the nominee."
McAuliffe indicated Clinton was not inclined to drag out a dispute over delegates from the unsanctioned Michigan primary despite feeling shortchanged by a weekend compromise by the party's rules committee that she could still appeal to a higher level.
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