And, he wins BIG! Looking at individual voter segments he won the women, groups under 65, ALL educational levels, voters without a college degree, Democrats, whites, white men, urban, suburban, and rural voters! Does that about cover the basis? The Wisconsin primary was a total WIPE OUT. The last numbers that I saw was a 57-42% (15%) victory.
It was Obama"s ninth straight victory over the past three weeks, as the Obama tsunami keeps rolling on. The former first lady is in a desperate need of a comeback in a race she long commanded as front-runner. Hawaii has not checked in yet, but my bet is that when we awaken Wednesday morning, Obama will hve ten in a row.
Where are the Clinton delegates?
"The change we seek is still months and miles away," Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston in a speech in which he also pledged to end the war in Iraq in his first year in office. "I opposed this war in 2002. I will bring this war to an end in 2009," he declared.
In a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cut deeply into Clinton"s political bedrock in Wisconsin, splitting the support of white women there almost evenly with her. According to polling place interviews, he also ran well among working class voters in the blue collar battleground that was prelude to primaries in the larger industrial states of Ohio and Pennsylvania
If Obama can take Texas in two weeks, there may not be a Democratic convention deadlock after all. But Hill and Bubba have two weeks to really get down and dirty. And did I mention that there"s a debate in Austin, Rexas this Thursday. It will not be for the meek of heart.