Barack Obama Performed Skillfully Tuesday Night

While Barack Obama, the best hope for the Democratic Party this year made a powerful speech in Madison, he was also performing skillfully where it matters.  At the polls on the East coast.

“He really cracked the Clinton coalition,” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos reported on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday. “If he gets these kind of numbers in Texas and Ohio, he will be the nominee.” “Obama won white men in Maryland and Virginia alike. He won 84 and 90 percent of blacks,” ABC’s Gary Langer writes in his dissection of the exit polls.“Obama narrowly won the few Hispanic voters in Virginia; he’d won Hispanics just once before, in Connecticut. Obama’s overall vote margins in the two states were his widest, outside his home state of Illinois, in any primary where fewer than four in 10 voters were African-Americans. He won women in both states, something he’s done outside states with larger black turnout only in Delaware, Iowa and his home state of Illinois. Indeed, in Virginia, Clinton won white women by a scant 6-point margin; he won them by 18 points in Maryland.”

There have been times this year that I was troubled with the exit polling for Barack Obama.  Not so last night!  If this galvanizing of the Democratic Party continues we will have our nominee on March 4th after Texas and Ohio have cast ballots.

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