The Kentucky primary favored Senator Hillary Clinton by a wide margin while Senator Obama pulled ahead in Oregon’s primary. While the Democratic nomination is still up in the air and primaries are still being fought over, the message and tone of Obama’s campaign has changed in the last few days as he focuses on the general election in November. Yesterday’s results give Obama over half of all pledged delegates, 1,627 of 3,253 total, propelling his campaign to focus on bringing Democrats together to defeat McCain in the general election. Lately his messages have been on platforms widely shared with Clinton but he is highlighting differences with the Republican nominee.

Senator Clinton has not given up the fight, claiming that no one has officially reached the required number of delegates to secure the nomination. Her base of support that gave her victory in last week’s West Virginia primary gave her a large margin of votes in Kentucky with 65% of the vote. Clinton still argues that she has what it takes to defeat McCain and has a better change in the swing states needed in the November elections. Obama offsets Clinton’s claims by downplaying the idea his party will have trouble unifying in the fall.

Obama’s speech in Iowa last night focused not on his Democrat opponent but rather focused on an overall vision of change and inspiration for all of America as his campaign believes that he is the inevitable Democratic nominee. Obama reached out to Clinton supporters and independents in his speech as he will need their votes in the general election. In a moving speech that showed his mastery of rhetoric and inspiring message, Obama used Iowa to highlight his values that he shares with much of America. The heart of the speech aimed at change and preventing Bush’s “third term” that McCain would bring to the country.

In a hard fought Democratic nomination process, many people have expressed concern that the party is split so heavily on the two candidates with very different bases of support. Obama is now attempting to unify the party by addressing concerns of the country primarily centered on the economy and his dissatisfaction with the Iraq War. McCain is trying to frame the future of the competition around foreign policy in which he totes his experience and Maverick like appeal to protect people from terrorism. Obama’s remarks on speaking to enemies has come under criticism but he has fired back that other methods the Bush Administration has used do not prove effective. While McCain and Obama prepare to battle for the presidency, Clinton is still hanging onto the possibility she can convince superdelegates to give her a change at defeating McCain. It seems that with Obama’s majority of pledged delegates she is going to need to make a very strong case that Kentucky alone cannot make for her.

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