Obama landslides could break deadlock

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

Source: politico.com

Barack Obama’s landslide victories in three mid-sized states Saturday suggest that he has the opportunity build a significant lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton among the locked-in “pledged” delegates before the candidates face off in the big battlegrounds of Ohio and Texas on March 4.

The results in Washington and Nebraska vindicated Obama’s strategy of preparing expensive efforts to organize votes after the Feb. 5 contests that many expected – wrongly — effectively to decide the race. Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, downplayed its own efforts in the states, though she did air television ads in both Washington and Nebraska.

Obama also won in Louisiana, buoyed by taking nearly 90% of the support of black voters, according to exit polls. And he won overwhelmingly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, winning all three of the territory’s pledged delegates.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8416.html

[flowomo]

1. this isn't news... it's commentary

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. I thought politico.com was news

apologies if I'm wrong.

[jkshaw]

6. Thanks for it, anyway

News OR commentary. Interesting.

[Big Blue Marble]

7. It is big news, big, big, news.

[Captain Hilts]

3. No, it's commentary/interpretation. It's Ohio and Penn. that really count. nt

[NightWatcher]

4. why are those the only states that count?

[milkyway]

8. Because they're the only ones she might win.

[Arkana]

5. No.

This is a huge building block--but Potomac Tuesday will be a defining moment for him. Sweep--or take Virginia and Maryland--and we'll have something. Otherwise, he'll have missed an effort to deal Hillary a really stunning blow.

[WA98296]

9. Are Ohio and Penn winner take all or proportional?

[frazzled]

10. All states are proportional for the Democrats /nt

[Honeycombe8]

11. Amazing. Who'd have thought this would happen, as recently as 2 mos. ago? HRC was the named winner

at that time, by MSNBC, and all other networks (the same ones that Clinton people say NOW hate her, when all they have done is report the fact that Obama is giving her a run for her money, and now possibly winning).

This is amazing.

[stillcool]

12. If I were to limit...

myself to the MSM to get a handle on what's going on, my perception would be very different. I love YouTube!!..and even though I have to wade through the swamp to get primary 'news', I love DU too.