Hillary is losing again

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama jumped ahead in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, reaching out for his ninth straight victory over a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in their epic struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sen. John McCain was the Republican winner, with ease.

Obama cut deeply into Clinton's political bedrock, splitting the support of white women almost evenly with the former first lady and running well among working class voters in a blue collar battleground, according to polling place interviews.

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Independents cast about one-quarter of the ballots in the race between Obama and Clinton, and roughly 15 percent of the electorate were first-time voters, the survey said. Obama has run strongly among independents in earlier primaries, and among younger voters, as well.

Wisconsin offered 74 national convention delegates. There were 20 delegates at stake in caucuses in Hawaii, where Obama spent part of his youth.

Obama began the night with 1,281 delegates in the AP count, and Clinton with 1,218. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination at the party's national convention in Denver.

Obama began the evening with eight straight primary and caucus victories, a remarkable run that has propelled him past Clinton in the overall delegate race and enabled him to chip away at her advantage among elected officials within the party who will have convention votes as superdelegates.

Hillary is losing. I never get tired of saying that.

Of course McCain is winning and that leaves a bitter taste, but overall nothing can take away the sweetness of Hillary losing.