Even white women were beginning to move toward the Illinois senator — Clinton won sixty percent of their votes, a much lower percentage than in contests past. Clinton has based her candidacy in large part on her appeal to white women.
"The Clinton campaign can't have it be about states won or lost or delegates won," said Democratic strategist Jenny Backus. "It needs to be about electability in the fall, strength against John McCain, and the key issues voters are facing."
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Obama rolled to decisive victories in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, running his hot streak to eight consecutive wins and expanding his lead in pledged convention delegates who select the party's nominee.
"Tonight, we're on our way. But we know how much further we have to go," Obama told supporters in Madison, Wisconsin, where the next showdown occurs in a week. "We know our road will not be easy. But we also know that at this moment the cynics can no longer say our hope is false."
So this is what it feels like to have a candidate who actually moves you. I'm agog.
...then again, he tempered, I suddenly find myself remembering Dennis Miller's line (back when he was still funny) about why Bill Clinton's saxophone-playing appearance on Arsenio Hall had gone so well.
"We can't believe we actually have a president who can do something. Look! He can actually play that thing!"
Mr. Bush has set the bar so low when it comes to speaking, that someone who even just uses sentences and paragraphs correctly would end up sounding like a silver-tongued balladeer.
In Obama's case, since he actually has a gift for rhetoric that threatens to rival both Reagan and Bill Clinton...
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