James Forsyth 12:33am
CNN are projecting that she might have won by as much as 30 points. The exit poll suggests huge numbers of Clinton supporters in this state would cross over and vote for McCain in the general if Obama is the nominee.
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James Forsyth 9:22pm
Tonight with the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, Obama should win an absolute majority of the elected delegates. Considering that he now leads among super delegates and in the popular vote, this shows just how close Obama is to being officially confirmed as the nominee.
Obama will be in Iowa this evening which is both the state where he proved that this presidential bid by a first-term senator was for real and a state that the Republicans won by only the slimmest of margins in 2004. But he won’t be...
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James Forsyth 9:00pm
It started with Obama's comments yesterday donwplaying the threat posed by Iran:
Which drew this response from McCain this morning:
Obama then punched back:
My hunch is that this will continue for a fair while as both sides think it favours them. The McCain campaign know that its best chance of winning is to turn this into a national security election. Yet the Obama people know that if they can negate McCain's advantage on national security by tying him to the Bush administration and the its handling of the Iraq war then the election is...
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James Forsyth 6:18pm
One of the McCain campaign’s key aims at the moment is to expose Obama’s talk of a new politics as just that—talk. So, it’ll have been delighted by this week’s column by Jonathan Alter, Newsweek’s liberal political columnist. Alter applauds McCain for his commitment to go before Congress and take questions as President and challenges Obama to sign up to it.
“When I asked Obama's campaign about the idea, I got a hedged answer. That's too bad, because it could be a fresh and exciting way for Obama to convey that
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James Forsyth 5:23pm

The crowds not only keep coming for Obama but they are getting bigger. Yesterday, in Portland, Oregon he drew 75,000 people. Now, Portland is the kind of liberal city where Obama is going to do very well. But one really has to wonder how large his crowds are going to be the weekend before the presidential election.
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