Click to play videoNew Delhi: Illinois senator and Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Virginia primary in the American presidential elections but he still has a bit of ways to go with Washington DC and Maryland still to give their verdict.
168 votes hang in the bargain and they could be the crucial deciding factor as to which candidate eventually wins the nomination for Democratic presidential candidate of the United States.
At this point, for the Democrats, the demographic profile appears to favour Obama. The voters in these three states are African-Americans and educated white voters. Obama has a strong following among both the groups.
“If you will vote for me on Tuesday, then I promise you this: We will not just win Maryland, we will win the Democratic nomination, we will win the general election, and you and I together, we will go forward to change this country and change the world,” Obama had said at a rally.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, downplayed Obama's weekend victories in four states choosing, instead, to focus on the March primaries in Ohio and Texas and indirectly emphasising on her experience as opposed to Obama's.
“We have to start imagining right now what it will take for our nominee to go toe-to-toe with John McCain on national security, on defense, on homeland security,” she told her supporters.
On the Republican side, frontrunner John McCain suffered an upset in Kansas over the weekend with Mike Huckabee winning – a sign that the conservatives are not happy with him but the Vietnam veteran remains confident.
“We're doing fine, we're doing fine,” McCain said. “We have 700 and some, close to 800 delegates, and the last time I checked, Governor Huckabee has very few.”
Although McCain has a solid lead over Huckabee, but the priest-turned-politician is not yet ready to throw in the towel.
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