"I don't think the race is over until Senator Clinton decides that she's getting out or until all the primaries and caucuses have taken place," Obama said during NBC's Meet The Press making the point that his campaign is not going fold if he loses Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday.

"... we are going to keep on going, and we feel confident that ultimately I'm going to be the Democratic nominee," the Illinois democrat said.

During conversation, dominated by the recent furore created by his Pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama said: "...I think the superdelegates, by rule, can make their own decision. I think the superdelegates are going to take a look not at momentary snapshot polls, but they're going to take a look at who's run the campaign that can bring about change in American and can actually govern after the election."

"The number of new people that we've brought in, the organisations that we've set up in all 50 states, the energy that our campaign has displayed indicates to me and should indicate to the superdelegates that the American people are ready to move in a new direction, and that's what we're offering. I'm confident, if I am the nominee, that I'll offer Democrats the best chance of winning in November," Obama said.

According to a latest delegate count, Obama has 1492 and Senator Clinton 1338. In the super-delegates category Clinton has 274 as opposed to Obama's 253 with 268 still uncommitted.

Political analysts believe that demographics will favour Senator Clinton in Indiana in a state for the last 40-years the democratic primaries have hardly mattered. In fact, over the past four decades Indiana has come to be a "Red" state consistently voting the Grand Old Party for the Presidency that Democratic Presidential candidates have not placed sufficient emphasis in this Mid Western state.

"... we're going to go through the next contest. We're looking forward to Indiana and North Carolina and then, when the process finishes in early June, people can look at all of the various factors and decide who would be the strongest candidate," Senator Clinton said yesterday.

"We have delegates selected by millions of people in primaries and delegates selected by a few thousand people in caucuses. I'm ahead in the popular vote, if you include Florida and Michigan," she said.

Polls in Indiana shows that Clinton is holding on to a very slim lead with some surveys even within the margin of error. Several weeks back Obama was leading in this state.

Indiana has a total of 85 delegates which includes 19 super delegates.

Surprisingly, the 20-point margin lead that Obama was holding in North Carolina is now down to the single digits with the Clinton campaign nervously hoping to carry out a win which will be spectacular in its own way.