Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Obama Wins Wisconsin; Poised for 10 in a Row

With a projected victory Tuesday in Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama is poised for 10 straight victories with the Illinois senator favored in Hawaii's Democratic caucus, the state where Obama was born. The victory in Wisconsin puts Sen. Hillary Clinton in a must win position heading into contests in Ohio and Texas on March 4.

In Wisconsin, Obama has 56 percent of the vote to Clinton's 43 percent, with 4 percent of precincts reporting.

Like a week ago in Maryland and Virginia, exit polls out of Wisconsin show Obama making serious inroads into Hillary Clinton’s base – female voters and white voters. READ MORE

On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain is the projected winner in Wisconsin. The McCain campaign is hoping that decsive wins Tuesday in Wisconsin and Washington state will knock Huckabee out of the race for the Republican nomination.

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