US-Presidential Race
Democratic strategist Jim Duffy on Wednesday suggested that it's time for Hillary Clinton to concede to Barack Obama.

"I take her at her word that she's going to go forward. But the math simply doesn't change. You can't change the numbers. The question becomes at what point is she willing to decide to concede." North Carolina gave Obama a victory, ending a big-state losing streak going back more than a month.

In Indiana, Hillary Rodham Clinton led in early returns, but most news organizations did not immediately project a winner there.

Obama congratulated Clinton on what he called her apparent victory in Indiana -- even though CBS was alone among major news organizations in calling that state's primary at that point.

But he went on to tell the crowd of about 3,000 that "tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."
He described the North Carolina win as a victory "in a big state, in a swing state, in a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."