It's as if his name recognition equalled Hillary's back then and he just gained popularity in the last few months due to his excellent policies.

The county/geographic map is here. Tim Russert says 20% of voters were Independent and 8% were Republcans who crossed over to vote in the primary. More than 70% of these voters went for Obama -- The cross-over candidate. All these figures are exit poll results. Russert says Obama will tout this as a sign of his electability in November, that he can win Republicans and Independents. I take it as another sign he's a compromiser and not a fighter for a progressive agenda.

Yes BTD, inspiring independents to vote for a Democrat is a terrible thing.  You say you're a tepid Obama supporter, but smear him for positive developments like winning a lot of independent voters from John McCain.  With this kind of logic, BTD will find a loser more honorable than a winner in November, provided he wins the Northeast and California.  Nevermind the fact that Obama could get more votes than Hillary and McCain combined tonight in a red state primary.

Bowers is also reporting that there is no difference in voting among education levels, and that Obama won the Latino vote.

But then, I forgot, Virginia doesn't count, even though it's a primary, because independents can vote in their primary, and black people live there, and it's not a core blue state like Massachusetts.

The delegate counts will be interesting.  

The VA loss is probably his most impressive performance of them all--a primary in a decent-sized purple state.

She won whites overall by a few points and white women (which fueled her win among whites) by ten points.

And keeping with trends in other states, won folks who decided on election day.

Not going to help her tonight, but this could help her in her must wins of Texas and Ohio.

Also, as anyone who has eaten Mexican food in the D.C. area knows, the latin@ vote there tends to be dominated by Central and South Americans, although Mexican Americans are increasing.  Whereas the western states are almost all Mexican American.   Combine the different backgrounds with the low latin@ percentage and I don't think that means very much with regard to Texas.

Still, a very nice win for Obama.

And, when you post anti-Obama/pro-Clinton spin like this:

I take it as another sign he's a compromiser and not a fighter for a progressive agenda.

They had a report on NPR last night that stunned me. In CA, as of this Monday 2/11, perhaps as many as 2 million of the 9.1 million votes cast hadn't been counted. An independent election expert said the results of 7 delegates could potentially switch (4 currently Clinton could go Obama, 3 currently Obama could go Clinton). And CA's not even a state that can swing, unlike the messiness in New Mexico and Missouri. Who knows how bad it is elsewhere.

But forgive me for thinking that a candidate asking to be my party's nominee should not spend the entire nominating process sucking up to people who aren't even in the party and may not vote Democratic in November.  Or am I the only one who remembers the "Democrat for a day" campaigns.

7 of those 11 are now in the books, with Clinton taking  4 and Obama taking 3.