Barack Obama is for all intents and purposes the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. NYTimes.com has the numbers as 56% to 39% with 9% reporting as of 10:52pm ET… and as reported earlier, he’s passed the delegate threshold needed to go up against Republican John McCain in November.
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Hillary Clinton has won the South Dakota Primaries, with the NY Times having the totals as follows (updated 6/4/08 with 100% reporting):
Hillary Clinton: 54,179 votes, 55.3%, 8 delegates won
Barack Obama: 43,726 votes, 44.7%, 7 delegates won
With the same % reporting, John McCain wins the GOP contest with 70.1% of the vote (Ron Paul finished [...]

We’ll have an update once SD and MT’s results are in, but unless something extraordinary happens between now and the conventions, it’s as close to official as you can get: Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are the two major party candidates in the race to be 44th President of the United States… [...]

According to the Associated Press, Illinois Senator Barack Obama “effectively clinched” the Democratic Presidential nomination today, based on a tally of pledged delegates, superdelegates and the minimum number of delegates he will add to his total today even if he loses both Montana and South Dakota Primaries. Here are the first few paragraphs of [...]

Regarding today’s Oregon Primaries, Barack Obama has been projected the winner by all the major news networks. With 95% of precincts reporting, Obama has a 58.7-41.3% lead over Hillary Clinton, and will take 18 pledged delegates to his opponent’s 12.
Overall on the night, Hillary has closed the pledged delegate gap, but — [...]

Hillary Clinton won a close one in Indiana, 51% to Barack Obama’s 49%… Meanwhile, Obama got a big win in North Carolina, 56% to Clinton’s 42%, according to NYTimes.com… On the already-decided GOP side, John McCain swept the night.