2 Md. leaders endorse Obama

Move on eve of Indiana, N.C. primaries nearly wipes out Clinton's superdelegate lead

Election 2008

Glover said she based her decision to endorse Obama on his lead in pledged delegates and popular votes, calling him the best candidate to "move our country past where we are now."

When pledged delegates and superdelegates are added together, Obama has 1,742 delegates to Clinton's 1,602, according to the Associated Press. It takes 2,025 to clinch the nomination, although the number could change if party officials reach agreement on seating delegates from Michigan and Florida, whose primaries didn't count because they violated party rules.

Obama, who has repeatedly failed to knock Clinton from the race, has indicated that he expects the contest to continue until the final primaries June 3.

"I'm pretty confident that we will be competing in all those contests and Senator Clinton will be as well," Obama said on NBC.

Clinton campaign officials, in a conference call with reporters, said they expect the race to be very close, after all the votes are counted June 3.

"We believe that we will have come out of this final period of the campaign with some wind at our backs and some real momentum from March, April, May and June," said strategist Geoff Garin.

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