Obama wins virgina and has now won 6 straight states
Posted by Media Outrage on February 13, 2008
This thing is still close but Barack Obama seems to be picking up some serious steam and the past 6 states in this competition have now began to resemble an old fashion pistol whipping for Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia primary Tuesday night and reached out for victories in nearby Maryland and the District of Columbia, determined to erode or even erase Hillary Rodham Clinton’s delegate lead in the Democratic presidential race. Obama’s triumph made it six straight over Clinton, the former first lady, now struggling in a race she once commanded.
Interviews with voters leaving the polls showed blacks accounted for nearly one-third of the ballots cast in Virginia, and Obama’s share approached 90 percent. He and Clinton split the white vote. She led among white women, but he was preferred by a majority of white men.
In all, there were 168 delegates at stake in the three Democratic primaries.
Clinton began the night with 1,147 delegates to 1,124 for Obama. Both are far from the 2,025 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
