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Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:


Before the polls had closed in the Potomac primary (Virgina, Maryland, and D.C.), Hillary was already in El Paso, Texas. She will probably live there for the next three weeks or until the March 4th Texas primary. And Obama was looking ahead to the next week, not three weeks from now, so he was in Wisconsin. Obama has won eight states in a row now, in just the last five days! But, that’s just part of the story.

What is amazing is the margin of victory and the internal voter profile data!

Obama won Virginia by 29 percentage points! TWENTY NINE (64-35%). That is staggering. And what must send shock waves through the Clinton camp is how well Obama did in her past strengths. Obama made in-roads to the women votes, older voters, and lower income voters. These historical strengths for Hillary faded big time in Virginia.

Obama won Maryland by 24 percentage points! TWENTY FOUR (60-36%). The polls had to stay open for another 90 minutes due to weather and long, long lines. Even the super delegates are re-thinking things now.

Obama won the DC vote by 51 percentage points! FIFTY ONE (75-24%). Hillary never expected to win the District Of Columbia but she sure didn’t expect to lose by such a great margin. She now has three weeks to re-tool and somehow hope that Obama will make some major mistake. That notwithstanding, the Clinton “dirty-tricks” squad will be working the late night oil to find something, anything that might stick like mud.

Get the picture? It’s called a landslide, a blow out, a massive TSUNAMI!

Obama now has the outright delegate lead. He has won 8 states in a row. And he has old MO (momentum) now firnly at his back shoving him onward. It’s not over by any means; however, Tuesday nights victory was like a literal tsunami that literally wiped everything out of it way and changed the political landscape- maybe for good!

PS. The good news is that Obama didn’t win another Grammy Tuesday evening.

Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:


Is the Hillary Clinton campaign machine in the last throes of life? There is no mistaking a certain flailing, a lashing-out, as Hillary Clinton has become angry, mocking, and offensive in the last few days leading up to today’s Ohio debate- the 20th such debate and the LAST! Tonight is D-Day for the Hillary express. A kick off or the boot?

One such indicator of a failing campaign is the denial of any sense of reality. Harold Ickes as an example, gave the following description of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospects, “We’re on the way to locking this nomination down,” he said of a candidate who appears, if anything, headed in the other direction. Locking it down? Get real!

The Austin Texas debate did not help Hillary. Will Ohio tonight?

Ickes added, while played the good cop role also said, “We think we are on the verge of our next up cycle,” he reported, even suggesting the apparent impossibility that Clinton “may be running even” with Obama when all the contests are over. “This race is very close,” he judged. “This is tight as a tick.”

Someone get that man a cup of coffee and wake him up!

In case the Clinton camp missed something, Obama has won ELEVEN election contests in a row, is ahead in teh pledged delegate count, the total delegate count, and the popular vote. Granted, we have four primaries coming up next week with 400+ delegates at stake, but it’s doubtful those four will change much of the current trend if anything at all.

The Obama tsunami rolls on!