Although Senator Hillary Clinton won Kentucky on Tuesday, the momentum is still on the side of her opponent Barack Obama.

Obama has a majority of pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention and now need 70 delegates to clinch the Democratic Party nomination so he can take on Republican candidate John McCain in November.

The 46-year-old Illinois Senator won Oregon last night, but it was more of a symbolic victory as he gathered more pledged delegates. Obama is now looking toward November after the spilt decision.

Obama held a speech - regarded by many as a victory address – in Iowa, the state where he recorded his first win in this lengthy primary fight.

"The skeptics predicted we wouldn't get very far. The cynics dismissed us as a lot of hype and a little too much hope. And by the fall, the pundits in Washington had all but counted us out. But the people of Iowa had a different idea," Obama said.

His Iowa speech was also an indication that he intends to fight for a number of battleground states lost by John Kerry in 2004.

On the other hand, Clinton held her speech in Kentucky, where she thanked the locals for not giving up on her and said she had never given up on them.

The victories recorded by the New York senator in Kentucky, as well as in West Virginia last week, were remarkable. As expected, Clinton dominated her opponent in the largely white states that were tailor-made for her campaign. She won both men and women, she won every age group, every income category and every level of educational achievement, but it came a bit too late, many experts said.

However, no Democrat has become president without winning Kentucky since John F. Kennedy did it in 1960 by defeating Richard Nixon.

Obama will have to convince these voters that they should pick him as their presidents. If not, he would have to redraw the electoral map in November by carrying states such as Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia – states that usually vote Republican at the presidential level.