WASHINGTON:A cornered Hillary Rodham Clinton as dented rival Barack Obama's lead in the delegate race with victories in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island but the African merican senator is still clinging on to his frontrunner status in the Democratic Presidential race.
Clinton picked up at least 115 delegates out of the 370 t stake in the three states and Vermont, where she lost. Obama picked up at least 88. Nearly 170 delegates were still to be awarded, including 154 in Texas, according to an AP count. A proportional voting system has led the two to split the delegates among them.
Obama had a total of 1,477 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates.
Clinton had 1,391 delegates. It will take 2,025 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination at the party's national convention in late August in Denver.
However another tracking web site claimed Clinton had 1,406 delegates, including 241 superdelegates, in her kitty against Obama's 1,495 (202 superdelegates).
RealClearPolitics said Clinton had bagged 127 of the 370 delegates while Obama had 100. As many as 143 delegates in Ohio and Texas were still to be awarded.
Clinton had won 46 of the 193 delegates in Texas while Obama had got 35. She got 63 in Ohio out of 141 delegates at stake while Obama got 48.
In Rhode Island and Vermont, Clinton got 12 and 6 delegates respectively. Obama secured 8 and 9 in the two states.
