Obama runs the table

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign.

"Today, voters from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast to the heart of America stood up to say 'yes we can'" Obama told a cheering audience of Democrats at a party dinner in Richmond, Va.

He jabbed simultaneously at Clinton and Arizona Sen. John McCain, saying the election was a choice between debating the Republican nominee-in-waiting "about who has the most experience in Washington, or debating him about who's most likely to change Washington. Because that's a debate we can win."

Clinton preceded Obama to the podium. She did not refer to the night's voting, instead turning against McCain. "We have tried it President Bush's way," she said, "and now the Republicans have chosen more of the same."

She left quickly after her speech, departing before Obama's arrival. But his supporters made their presence known, sending up chants of "Obama" from the audience as she made her way offstage.

Obama's winning margins ranged from substantial to crushing.

As things stand right now it appears that Barack Obama is the most likely to gain the Democrat nomination. This would be the best thing for the Democrat's chances in November because Hillary Clinton carries so much negative baggage.

She is simply disliked by a substantial number of the voting public and nearly half of the electorate has already reached a settled decision not to vote for her. No candidate in US history has won the presidency with negatives as high as Mrs. Clinton's.

With Clinton at the head of the ticket the swing voters who make up the winner's margin of victory (as there are not enough Republicans or Democrats to win on their own) will break toward McCain, who has built his career and ambitions on appealing to the independents. If, however, Obama is the Democrat nominee they will flock to him as the polls are increasingly showing.

With the mainstream media, which is in full blown love with him, behind him Obama will easily bury McCain who is a stone which too many Republicans will not be able to swallow without choking to death.