by Davar Iran Ardalan

Originally posted on NPR News in Brief
Primaries in South Dakota and Montana will bring the Democratic presidential nomination closer to a finish on Tuesday, as the last contests were likely to prompt dozens of uncommitted superdelegates to declare their choice of candidate.

 

Polls suggest Sen. Barack Obama will win both contests. But neither he nor Senator Hillary Clinton plans to be in either primary state Tuesday night.

Obama has a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota — in the same arena where Republicans hold their party convention in September. Clinton will have an evening rally in New York.

Although according to the figures, Obama has outdistanced his rival, Clinton is giving no hints that she's leaving the race.

"I'm just very grateful we kept this campaign going until South Dakota would have the last word," she said at a restaurant in Rapid City in one of her final campaign stops.

Husband Bill Clinton didn't sound as buoyant, offering that "this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind."