Barack Obama is gathering momentum in his uninterrupted series of wins and hopes to shoot into a clear lead over rival Hillary Clinton in a tense and close battle for the Democratic presidential candidacy. The inability to give their opponent a coup de grace on the Super Tuesday polls of February 5th has left the battle raging on.
Barack Obama is gathering momentum in his uninterrupted series of wins and hopes to shoot into a clear lead over rival Hillary Clinton in a tense and close battle for the Democratic presidential candidacy. The inability to give their opponent a coup de grace on the Super Tuesday polls of February 5th has left the battle raging on.
His clear sweep of the polls in the states of Louisiana, Washington, Maine and Nebraska put him in a slight lead against Hillary. Obama hopes to extend his win even farther at the end of this Tuesday’s count from Virginia with a total of 83 delegates, Maryland with 70 and the District of Columbia offering 15, that is an overall 168 delegates at stake at the ‘Potomac Primaries’. Polls close at 7pm EST in Virginia and 8pm EST on Wednesday Maryland and the District.
The battle is not over yet as each candidate is almost at halfway to the 2,025 needed to secure the Democratic nomination. Obama now has 943 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 895, according to a count by MSNBC.
Clinton, who replaced her campaign manager, Patty Solis Doyle with Maggie Williams, in hope of a reversal of fortune wants to gain an advantage in the states of Ohio and Texas, by concentrating more on “the kind of voters that will have to be convinced and won over in the general election”. Meanwhile, Obama’s wins in small states continue to grow as he is tipped to win next weeks polls in both Wisconsin and Hawaii.
Both candidates are to meet for a debate two days after the Wsconsin and Hawaii contests and again follow it up with another with a Cleveland-Ohio debate on the 26th of February.
