Obama Achieves Required Delegates, Clinches Nomination

The Associated Press is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has clinched the party's nomination by accumulating the required number of delegates, with the primaries in Montana and South Dakota being held today.

Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Obama will officially receive the party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention, scheduled to be held in August.

According to Catherine Dodge of Bloomberg.com, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not eliminated from winning the nomination, but Clinton's odds are next to impossible from the statistics that Dodge provided. According to Dodge, Clinton is 199 delegates shy of the sufficient number required to win the nomination. As a result, Clinton would have to persuade more than 85 percent of the remaining undeclared superdelegates in order to prevent Obama from winning the nomination.

Conflicting reports have come out all day as to whether or not Clinton will drop out of the race if in fact Obama were to receive the required number of delegates.

Clinton's campaign has denied the Associated Press's initial report that she would in fact concede, as recently as an hour ago. CNN is reporting that Clinton has stated that she would be open to the Vice President position.