Washington: While political pundits are piling pressure on Hillary Clinton to quit the White House race, Democratic front runner Barack Obama feels the race is far from over and has refused to nominate himself as the "presumptive nominee" of the Party.

In an interview to NBC News, Obama said Clinton is quite qualified to be President as also the Vice Presidential candidate.

"If Senator Clinton decides not to go on or if we complete the six contests and we are ahead as we are now. But nothing is certain. I don't want to take it for granted" Senator Clinton has been written off before and came back.

And she's a formidable candidate. So obviously we feel good about the results on Tuesday. It strengths our position. I am confident that we can finish this, these last few contest and be in a continuing strong position.

It's not yet settled," Obama said. On the question of considering himself as the "presumptive nominee" of the party, Obama said, "Not yet. I will be". "That will be an important day. If, at that point, we have the majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then-- I think we can make a pretty strong claim that-- you know, we have got the most wins and it's the ninth inning. And we have won. But do so in a way that brings the party together," Obama said.

This Tuesday, Obama defied opinion polls in North Carolina and trounced Clinton by almost 15 percentage points and lost Indiana by a whisker.

Source : PTI