Obama Scores Saturday Sweep

Illinois Senator Defeats Clinton In Louisiana, Washington And Nebraska; Huckabee Beats McCain In Kansas, Louisiana

(CBS/AP)  Illinois senator Barack Obama will be the winner of all Democratic contests on Saturday, defeating New York senator Hillary Clinton in the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state.

Obama 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.

Obama's winning margins ranged from substantial to crushing.

In Louisiana, Obama led Clinton, 57 percent to 36 percent, with almost all precincts reporting. In Nebraska, Obama won 68 percent to 32 percent for Clinton. In Washington, Obama had 68 percent to 31 percent with almost all precincts reporting.

On the Republican side in Lousiana, CBS News projects former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will win over Arizona senator John McCain. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Huckabee led by almost 3,000 votes.

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Louisiana Results
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However, Huckabee does not receive any delegates from his primary win. The Louisiana Republican party requires that a candidate receive 50 percent to win delegates. Huckabee got 44 percent of the vote, to McCain's 42 percent. The rest of the vote was split between Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and to candidates who have dropped out of the race - Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. Thus, 20 Louisiana delegates will go to the convention uncommitted.

Huckabee also won the Kansas Republican caucuses on Saturday afternoon, beating McCain by a large margin.


In Washington McCain is leading Huckabee by a slim margin. With 87 percent of the vote in, McCain is leading 26 percent to 24 percent.

Obama and Clinton competed for Democratic convention delegates as they remain locked in a landmark struggle for the party's presidential nomination.

"These were important wins for Obama," said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. "The one thing that has been missing in the Democratic contest is momentum. With his Saturday sweep and very favorable contests coming up Tuesday in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, Obama may be on the verge of some big 'mo. While the delegate split is almost certain to keep the race tight, these wins cannot be overlooked."

In the race for delegates, CBS News estimates that Clinton has 1,118 delegates to Obama's 1,112. It takes 2,025 delegates to win the nomination. Click here to see the latest updated state-by-state delegate scorecard.

In Louisiana, the economy was the top issue for 47 percent of Democratic primary voters, according to early CBS News exit polls, followed by the Iraq war at 27 percent and health care at 23 percent. Nearly 90 percent said the economy is in bad shape.

The most important quality in a candidate for Louisiana Democratic voters was the ability to bring change, cited by over half of respondents. Nineteen percent were looking for someone with the right experience, 16 percent wanted someone who cares about them, and seven percent wanted a candidate who could win.

According to the exit polls, 49 percent of voters in the Louisiana Democratic primary were black, and 82 percent of them backed Obama. Among white voters, 70 percent backed Clinton to 26 percent for Obama.

Among Republicans in Louisiana, according to CBS News early exit polls, 49 percent of Republicans said they were looking for a candidate who shares their values. Twenty-one percent said they wanted a candidate who says what he believes and 20 percent said they were looking for someone with the right experience. Ten percent said they wanted someone with the best chance to win in November.

Roughly three-quarters of Republican voters in the state felt positively about the Bush administration, and the same percentage approved of the war in Iraq.

The economy was the number one issue for Louisiana's Republican voters, cited by 33 percent of respondents, followed by illegal immigration at 24 percent and terrorism at 20 percent each. Seventeen percent said the war in Iraq.

Conservatives in Louisiana went for Huckabee over McCain 51 percent to 36 percent, according to the exit polls. McCain is winning among Republican moderates 55 percent to 29 percent.

Huckabee's fortunes once again are carried by white evangelical voters. They are voting 57 percent to 33 percent for Huckabee over McCain.

Huckabee's win in Kansas came a few hours after telling conservatives in Washington, "I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them."

Huckabee took 60 percent of the vote, followed by McCain with 24 percent and Paul with 11 percent. Huckabee won all 36 delegates at stake.

The results are a "pretty significant signal to John McCain that he's got a lot of work to do to get significant factions of the Republican Party solidly behind him," said Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kris Kobach.

[candide777]

-I don''''t have all the answers, but Jesus does, and His Word, the Bible, lays it all out.
Posted by singinrick at 05:18 PM : Feb 10, 2008

Yes, lays it all out has human beings decided it should be laid out, translated and re-translated centuries after the death of Christ. What foolish arrogance. On the one hand, God is unknowable and transcendent. On the other hand, singinprick knows exactly what God wants even though it wasn''t until 400 years after the death of Christ that Christians (fallible human beings) could even agree that Jesus was in fact the son of God. Truly, the arrogance of a singinprick knows no bounds!

[taddles-2009]

"So we''''re supposed to take this guy on face value that he''''s a reasonable guy and will do a good job.

Posted by standlee5 at 04:16 PM : Feb 11, 2008"

No, you''re supposed to take 5 minutes and bother to look up some information on him rather than just parotting the juvenile trash passing for news from the Rush ********''s of the world. Read a book perhaps, google Barak Obama, check out Wikipedia, read some real news ANYWHERE.

As I recall the quote from the 2000 election was "Bush is the kind of guy I''d like to have a beer with"...that was the qualifications you people wanted in your president?!? That kind of back-woods thinking got us 8 years of the worst government ever.

Take 5 minutes and look up information on ALL the candidates and make up your mind, but don''t make up your mind because of what you heard from the paid propagandists on FOX "news".

[taddles-2009]

"he will have a tough time delivering the "youth" vote to the polls should he get the Dem nomination.

Posted by wyzguy11 at 10:59 AM : Feb 11, 2008"

Uh huh...so the 300% increase in voter turn out for the primaries and caucuses nationwide is just a fluke and all these young people are going to stay home in November...you''re high.

[taddles-2009]

"His mom was American but his dad was like an international drifter or something.

Posted by standlee5 at 04:37 PM : Feb 11, 2008"

His father was a Harvard PhD. from Kenya. Barak was born in Hawaii which makes him an American citizen...just like you. He only lived outside the US for 4 years, from 1967 to 1971.

Considering he is getting 60% of the vote in nearly every state he has won, your comment about this being only about the "color of his skin" is stupid and racist.

[standlee5]

Is Obama even able to become president. His mom was American but his dad was like an international drifter or something. It''s not like he has deep American roots. He didn''t even grow up here. The Obama phenomenon is like a religious movement or something. I don''t get it.

[standlee5]

So we''re supposed to take this guy on face value that he''s a reasonable guy and will do a good job. This is the craziest thing I''ve ever seen.

[standlee5]

You know it''s almost scary how Obama has so many followers blindly jumping on the bandwagon. The guy has offered NOTHING in substance. It''s actually the most racist campaign I''ve ever seen. They only thing he has going for him is the color of his skin. It''s mindboggling.

[alanrobisch]

Nothing comparable by any stretch has been mounted to attack the current presidency yet the scandals and lies that have come to light by the sheer weight of their numbers are astonishing and with a potential change of leadership in the White House there will be more.


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Posted by jon2012 at 01:08 PM : Feb 11, 2008

You have a memory lapse. There were more special counsels named during the clinton adm than at any other time. They are liars not inept just skilled liars.

[gunownerdan]

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual ... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
- Suzanna Gratia-Hupp

www.a-human-right.com

[jon2012-2009]

Corrupt, inept, arrogant, power hungry,i.e the Clintons, et al. I see the Clintons as more of the problem than the solution. Their political baggage and favors to be repaid put us right back to square one with the Washington "good ole boys/girls club", a guarantee of more of the same.

Posted by tibu987 at 11:42 PM : Feb 10, 2008

You''re just mouthing Republican trash. If a well-informed person were to bandy about the words corrupt, inept, arrogant, power-hungry, the correct target would be the Republicans, especially the Bush administration. $70 million spent by Ken Starr investigating Clinton yielded Monica, nothing else. Nothing comparable by any stretch has been mounted to attack the current presidency yet the scandals and lies that have come to light by the sheer weight of their numbers are astonishing and with a potential change of leadership in the White House there will be more.

[libra127]

"Especially when the Clintons criminal history is still relatively fresh."
Posted by Jack3213 at 09:10 AM : Feb 11, 2008

Huh ? Ken Starr and his gang spent years and millions of dollars searching in depth for that "criminal history" and all they found were Bill''s BJs. There was NO EVIDENCE for the so-called crimes they were accused of by their nasty political opponents.

[jon2012-2009]

The Clintons are as corrupt as can be.
Posted by Jack3213 at 09:10 AM : Feb 11, 2008

So they''re more corrupt than Bush? Than the Republicans in general? I don''t buy that, especially not without any presented facts. The Bush corruption rivals the worst third world countries and is rare in the industrialized societies. The apple doesn''t fall far from the tree. The Republicans aren''t far behind.

[alanrobisch]

jack you are a man after my own heart. I''m not quite as pessimistic about obama who seems a man of character. I read an editorial piece by Paul Krugman this morning in which he claimed that Obama was the center of a cult following and that he was the source of the greater attacks.

It seems sour grapes. He supports clinton and apparently disheartened that his homegirl may be beaten. It would seem the scorch and burn tactics have finally come home to roost.

It would seem at this point that Obama is the more electable of the two dems.

[jack3213]

The Clintons are as corrupt as can be. What''''s more disheartening and hard to fathom, is the sheer number of gullible, entitlement minded supporters there are for them. Especially when the Clintons criminal history is still relatively fresh. I fear for the future of our country, when so many potential voters are more enamoured with gender politics and pop culture than the more important issue of character and adherance to the Constitution. The Clintons are not only power-mad, but they also promise a Socialist/Marxist style of government. Something their supporters either ignore, or actually support. The ignorance and rejection of the greatness of America by the Democrat electorate is stunning and sad. The ominous, looming danger of a Clinton or even an Obama Presidency is horrifying.

[roxy000]

It is really interesting, watch this

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=117552

[neoconrcrazy]

Let''s face reality :

Clinton vs. McCain = McCain wins

Obama vs. McCain = Obama wins


want a change? want to win? vote obama.

[rowdytexan2]

Who is the more foolish...........the fool or the fool that follows him/her?."


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Posted by tibu987 at 11:39 PM : Feb 10, 2008

You are dipwit by making such a stupid statement.

[standlee5]

Actually, it would be more accurate to say we wouldn''''t know who Bill Clinton is if it weren''''t for Hillary. LOLPosted by libra127 at 12:27 AM : Feb 11, 2008

yeah, exactly. good one.

[libra127]

"We would not even know who Hillary is if it weren''t for Bill."
Posted by tibu987 at 11:42 PM : Feb 10, 2008

Actually, it would be more accurate to say we wouldn''t know who Bill Clinton is if it weren''t for Hillary. LOL

I suggest you read Carl Bernstein''s biography of Hillary, entitled "A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Clinton".

[shouaxx]

LETS SEE OBAMA FANS AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTES AND COLLEGE KIDS OH AND RICH BRATS THAT HAVE NO WORRIES THAT IS WHO VOTES FOR OBAMA! DID YOU KNOW AT THE CAUCUSES MOST ARE COLLEGE STARBUCK BRATS THAT ARE 18 19 YRS OLD YEAH THEY SURE KNOW ALLOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND SOCIAL ISSUES OF TODAY. PLEASE DON''T WORRY HILLARY PEOPLE THAT HAVE REAL WORRIES AND SEE YOU BEYOND SKIN COLOR WILL BE BY YOUR SIDE!