Obama Talking Points

An Early Look Inside the Numbers (As of 9:45 pm CST)

Surprisingly strong performances in Senator Clinton’s backyard has Senator Obama in a strong position on Super Tuesday.

Senator Obama Wins Home State Head-to-Head

Obama won his home state by 67 delegates (110-43; 153 total). Clinton won her home state by 52 delegates (142-90; 232 total). Among home states, Obama won a net delegate margin of 15. That’s a good number – but even more impressive when you consider that New York had 79 more delegates up for grabs than Illinois.

Obama Wins in Clinton’s Backyard -- Connecticut

Obama won in Connecticut – less than 10 miles from Clinton’s New York home. Nearly 25% of Connecticut voters live in the New York media market.
Obama Showed Strong Across the board Strength in Georgia

In Georgia, Obama won nearly 40% of the white vote and 64% of the vote among women – an impressive display of across the board support in a Southern, so-called ‘red state’.

Strong Showing among Hispanics

Despite all the talk about Clinton’s strong support among Hispanics, Obama won a clear majority of Hispanics in Illinois and got nearly 44% of the Hispanics in Arizona, according to exit polls.

Obama Won Lion’s Share of Delaware Delegates

15 delegates were up for grabs in Delaware. Because of huge margins in Wilmington, the site of Obama’s 20,000-person rally on Sunday, Obama will take 9 delegates and Clinton only 6.

Obama Sweeps Caucus States

Obama is position to sweep the caucus states. According to early projections, Obama is likely to take delegates by about a 2-to-1 margin in Minnesota (72 total delegates), Kansas (32 total delegates), North Dakota (13 total delegates).

Similar margins in Obama’s favor are also likely in other caucus states: Colorado, Idaho and Alaska.

Obama, So Far, Has Won More Red States Than Clinton (5-3)

AL, GA, UT, KS, ND, (5)

AR, TN, OK (3)

Comments

Free advice to Obama campaign: Don't make "we won Delaware" one of your talking points. It's the electoral equivalent of "You forgot Poland."

Posted by Michael T Sweeney | February 5, 2008 10:57 PM

Awesome! I guess the man can win in red states. Go Obama!

Posted by Keith | February 5, 2008 11:50 PM

Fact:

Obama EMBARASSED!

He can't win women.

He can't win white women.

He can't win Latinos.

He can't win 65 and over voters.

He can't win Asains.

Worse,

Has Kerry, Kennedy, Patrick ...blown outin MA.

Boldly predicts yesterday in NJ that he'd win NJ and CA ... azz handed to him in NJ.

McCaskill ... at least she can show her face. He should win by 1% there.

Napolitano? Obama beat badly in AZ.

Posted by DA aNDREWS | February 6, 2008 12:34 AM

You forgot to add AK, CO, ID, and MO (as well as NM possibly) in the Obama red-state tally.

Posted by TheQuotient | February 6, 2008 2:07 AM

Senator Obama did much better than anticipated as of two weeks ago when the Clintons' co-presidency campaign was expected to sweep the Feb 5th sweepstakes. Obama's success has everything to do with grassroots ordinary working class and middle-class citizens like us who donate $20 and $50 to his race. Our support of Obama has everything to do with his decent and brilliant control of his organization that augers well for his prsidency, in contrast to the Clintons' party machine of personal destruction and slime and sleaze. We older women voters, like our adult children, are wary of the status quo of lies and divisiveness that the Clinton dynastic co-presidency will obviously return us to should Hillary and Bill win another 8 years in the WH. I am an Asian American and can vouch that Asian Americans as informed voters will vote for Senator Obama in November. Many of us will NOT vote for a corrupt, power-driven, win-at-all-costs machine candidate like Hillary and Bill. We WANT change. We are motivated to move into the 21st century in a clean break with dirty divide-and-rule lobbyists dominated politics.

Posted by shirlin | February 6, 2008 3:12 AM