Obama: Democrats will unite for November

NEW ALBANY, Ind., April 24 (UPI) -- The Democratic Party will survive the raucous, heated primaries, uniting behind its candidate for U.S. president in November, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said.

"Don't worry about the party being divided in November," Obama said Wednesday during a speech at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Ind. "The Democratic Party is going to recognize as soon as we have a nominee that there is too much at stake for us to be divided."

Obama lost by nearly 10 percentage points to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday. He and Clinton spent Wednesday in Indiana, which has its primary May 6, along with North Carolina.

Obama said "there has been some time lost" that could have been spent focused on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, "and that is why we would like to wrap up this campaign as quickly as possible."

Clinton told an audience in Indianapolis, "I'm going to be here for the next two weeks doing everything I can to help as many Hoosiers understand that I will be there for you, and you can count on me, that I will fight for you."

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