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Obama, McCain win in Wisconsin
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Barack Obama won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, his ninth straight victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in their epic struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“The change we seek is still months and miles away," the Illinois senator told a boisterous crowd in Houston. The Ohio and Texas races March 4 are the next big contests in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination —370 delegates in all.
Arizona Sen. John McCain was the Republican winner, with ease, dispatching former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and edging closer to the 1,191 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination at the party convention in St. Paul, Minn. next summer.
In a scarcely veiled attack on Obama, the Republican nominee-in-waiting said, "I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change."
McCain won 13 delegates by carrying the popular vote in Wisconsin, with 24 delegates still to be awarded. There were 19 GOP delegates at stake Tuesday night in Washington state.
The Democrats had a total of 74 delegates at stake in Wisconsin. There were 20 delegates at stake in caucuses in Hawaii, where Obama spent part of his youth. There were no Democratic delegates at stake in the Washington primary.
In the overall race for the nomination, Obama leads with 1,294 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton had 1,218. The New York senator made no mention of her defeat Tuesday night and showed no sign of surrender in an appearance in Youngstown, Ohio.
"Both Senator Obama and I would make history," the former first lady said. "But only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice."
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.
The economy and trade were key issues in the race, and seven in 10 voters said international trade has resulted in lost jobs in Wisconsin. Fewer than one in five said trade has created more jobs than it has lost.
“The change we seek is still months and miles away," the Illinois senator told a boisterous crowd in Houston. The Ohio and Texas races March 4 are the next big contests in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination —370 delegates in all.
Arizona Sen. John McCain was the Republican winner, with ease, dispatching former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and edging closer to the 1,191 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination at the party convention in St. Paul, Minn. next summer.
In a scarcely veiled attack on Obama, the Republican nominee-in-waiting said, "I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change."
McCain won 13 delegates by carrying the popular vote in Wisconsin, with 24 delegates still to be awarded. There were 19 GOP delegates at stake Tuesday night in Washington state.
The Democrats had a total of 74 delegates at stake in Wisconsin. There were 20 delegates at stake in caucuses in Hawaii, where Obama spent part of his youth. There were no Democratic delegates at stake in the Washington primary.
In the overall race for the nomination, Obama leads with 1,294 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton had 1,218. The New York senator made no mention of her defeat Tuesday night and showed no sign of surrender in an appearance in Youngstown, Ohio.
"Both Senator Obama and I would make history," the former first lady said. "But only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice."
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.
The economy and trade were key issues in the race, and seven in 10 voters said international trade has resulted in lost jobs in Wisconsin. Fewer than one in five said trade has created more jobs than it has lost.
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