State party chairmen meeting at Obama HQ

In yet another sign that Democratic forces are starting to view Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as their party’s presumptive nominee, a group of state party chairmen are gathering in Chicago at Obama’s headquarters Friday.

{mosads}The Hill has learned, and the Obama campaign has confirmed, that the group is meeting there just days after Obama won big in North Carolina and narrowly lost in Indiana.

The meeting comes on the eve of the launch of a 50-state voter registration drive the Obama campaign is engaging in with the Democratic National Committee.

The Obama campaign declined to disclose which states the party chairmen were from.

While many analysts and Democratic officials now view Obama as their party's nominee, senior campaign aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Friday morning that she has every intention of continuing the race through the last nominating contest on June 3 and possibly beyond.