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Senator Hillary Clinton campaigned in Florida on Wednesday (May 21), pressing for the states' democratic primary election votes to be counted as Barack Obama sounded like the probable Democratic presidential nominee while also campaigning in Florida. Clinton continued her uphill Democratic race and demanded the state's delegates be seated at the August nominating convention despite a dispute with the national party. The dueling visits came the day after split decisions in Oregon and Kentucky gave Obama a majority of pledged delegates won in the lengthy state-by-state nomination fight with Clinton -- a milestone he hopes marked a turning point in their battle for the right to face McCain in November. "We are at the threshold of being able to obtain this nomination," Obama told a rally in Tampa, Florida. Obama said he hoped the milestone marked the beginning of the end of the grueling battle and he turned his attention to a general election matchup with Republican John McCain in November. Obama hopes the pledged-delegate milestone convinces more undecided superdelegates -- party officials who can back any candidate and will make the difference in the race -- to move his way. A count by MSNBC gave him 1,960 total delegates to Clinton's 1,783, leaving him about 65 short of the 2,026 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic Party convention in August. Michael Tanner from the CATO Institute said the Clinton Campaign was drawing to a close. "I think this is another ...