“Barack Obama scored an easy win in North Carolina on Tuesday to take a big step toward the Democratic presidential nomination, and Hillary Clinton struggled to a narrow victory in Indiana that kept her faint White House hopes alive. With a double-digit win over Clinton in North Carolina’s nominating contest, Obama rebounded from a rough campaign stretch fueled by his comments on ‘bitter’ small-town residents and a controversy over racially charged comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In Indiana, Clinton led Obama by about 23,000 votes out of more than 1.2 million votes cast with nearly all of the ballots counted early on Wednesday.” (05/07/08)