by progress — published on February 20th, 2008
Barack Obama won handily in Hawaii by 76% of the vote. Obama’s winning streak increases by 2, to equal 10 wins in a row. It looks as if the Windy City Senator has won the momentum fight going into the March 4th primaries in Texas and Ohio. Wisconsin was a sort of test site for the Clinton campaign as to whether its decision to use negative campaigning would boost their numbers and slim Obama’s margin of victory. Clinton campaign officials have said that they will continue to go negative because the strategy did work in Wisconsin, even though Obama won by 17 percentage points. The campaign opines that the Wisconsin victory margin is less than that of the Potomac Primaries so the strategy was a success. Wisconsin exit polls revealed that 58% of voters felt that the Clinton campaign unfairly criticized Obama. Only 33% thought that the Obama campaign unfairly criticized Clinton. Wisconsin is known for its distaste of negative campaigning. Further revelations from the exit polls showed that 51% of the voters thought that Obama would be the best Commander-in-Chief. Also, when Wisconsin voters were asked who cares about them, 54% believes that Obama cares more about them as people. For Clinton to be competitive for the nomination at this point, she will have to win over 70% of the popular vote in the remaining battleground states. In which, she would receive 65 percent of the delegates in those states. This would be a shock heard around the world if Clinton were able to pull off such a feat given the dynamics of the race thus far. If Obama wins 65 percent of the remaining delegates, he can win the nomination with just elected delegates. The Senator would not need the superdelegates, he could clinch the nomination just from the primary and caucus vote. Obama now leads Clinton in elected delegates by about 150, has won more states, and leads in the popular vote.
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