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Big Wins for Illinois Politicians Over the Weekend: Obama and Foster
March 10th, 2008
Barack Obama won the Wyoming Caucus on Saturday by some 19 votes. Obama picks up 7 delegates to Hillary Clinton’s 5, widening his delegate lead to nearly 100.
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Obama wins again in caucuses — Wyoming’s
Associated Press
CASPER, Wyo. - Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination.
Obama won 59 percent, or 4,459 votes, to Clinton’s 40 percent, or 3,081 votes, on Saturday with 22 of Wyoming’s 23 counties reporting. Twelve delegates were at stake. Obama already has a lead in the overall race for nominating convention delegates.
Obama generally has outperformed Clinton in caucuses, which reward organization and voter passion more than do primaries. The Illinois senator has now won 13 caucuses to Clinton’s three.
Obama has also shown strength in the Mountain West, winning Idaho, Utah, Colorado and now Wyoming. The two split Nevada, with Clinton winning the popular vote and Obama more delegates
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23534864/
In what’s big news for the Whole Democratic party, Democrat Bill Foster won former Republican Speaker of the House Denis Hasters’s seat on Thursday.
This serves as a good sign that the flushing out of republicans from Washington in 2006 will continue this November.
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Democrat wins former Speaker Hastert’s seat
Alex Coppeland
A Democrat has taken former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert’s seat in a special election in a reliably Republican Illinois district.
In Illinois’ 14th District, which stretches from the far western suburbs of Chicago to the Mississippi River, Bill Foster defeated Republican Jim Oberweis Saturday, winning 52 percent of the vote. Foster will serve out the remainder of Hastert’s term.
Hastert announced his resignation from Congress in November 2007. In 2006, he was elected to his 11th term amid voter anger over the Mark Foley scandal. In the run-up to the 2006 election, it was learned that Hastert had known for some time that Florida Rep. Mark Foley had been sending inappropriate messages to a former House page. In the same election, Hastert lost the speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi as the Democrats gained control of the House.
Both parties spent heavily on Saturday’s contest because of the likelihood that the result would be seen as a harbinger of the fall. The National Republican Congressional Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each invested more than $1 million. In addition, John McCain campaigned for Oberweis and Barack Obama cut an ad for Foster. Prior to the vote, DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen called the 14th a “rock-ribbed” Republican district and said a Foster win “would send a shock wave through the political system.” After Foster’s victory, the NRCC released a statement saying that “what happens today is not a bellwether of what happens this fall.”
www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html
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