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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Obama, Clinton battle; McCain clinches WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Rhode Island primary Tuesday night and raced to a big lead in Ohio, but struggled to make a major dent in Barack Obama's delegate lead in a riveting Democratic presidential race. Arizona Sen. John McCain, an unflinching supporter of the war in Iraq, clinched the Republican nomination. Clinton claimed victory in Ohio, and told cheering supporters, "We're going on, we're going strong and we're going all the way." Obama won the Vermont primary for his 12th straight victory in one month's time, and the two rivals were locked in a tight race in Texas primary. No matter how it turned out, he said, "We have nearly the same delegate lead as we did this morning and we are on our way to winning this nomination." Both Democrats called McCain to congratulate him on his triumph in the Republican race. The 71-year-old Arizona senator surpassed the 1,191 delegates needed to win his party's nomination, completing a remarkable comeback that began in the snows of New Hampshire eight weeks ago. President Bush invited him to lunch - and an endorsement - at the White House on Wednesday. "We are in Iraq, and our most vital security interests are involved there," said McCain at a victory celebration nearly a decade in the making. Obama had 1,397 delegates in the Democratic race, according to The Associated Press count, to 1,281 for Clinton, with most of the night's 370 delegates still to be allocated. With their remarks, first Clinton, then Obama, sought to frame the race in the best possible terms for their own campaigns. "They call Ohio a bellwether state, the battleground state. It's a state that knows how to pick a president and no candidate in recent history, Democrat or Republican, has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary," the former first lady said in Columbus. Moments later, Obama stepped to the microphone in San Antonio. He said the outcome of the Texas primary might not be known until Wednesday, and he all but conceded defeat in Ohio. Either way, he added, it was the delegates that mattered.
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