Hold up. Wait a minute, Mr. Obama. Not so fast. It looks like Hillary Clinton has found her groove and is once again ready to give you a run for the money.
Clinton, the senator from New York won primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island Tuesday, almost guaranteeing that the historic race for the Democratic nomination will continue into the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, Obama, the Illinois senator won Vermont ... his 12th victory in a row. But that was all the winning he would do on what's now being called Super Tuesday 2.
In Columbus, Ohio Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to let her supporters know that her victory represented a comeback.
"For everyone who has stumbled and stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you!" Clinton told the cheering crowd. "You know what they say: as Ohio goes, so goes the nation. Well, this nation’s coming back and so is this campaign."
In Texas, Barack Obama was resigned to losing, but put a positive spin on things because after all, he still leads delegate count.
"No matter what happens tonight, we have nearly the same delegate lead we had this morning and we are on the way to winning the nomination," said Obama.
Officially Obama has 1,477 to Clinton's 1,391 delegates. The magic number to clinch is 2,025.
On the Republican side, it's all over. Arizona Sen. John McCain became the official GOP nominee with easy victories in Vermont, Texas, Rhode Island and Ohio that put him across the threshold of 1,191 delegates, prompting Mike Huckabee to quit the race.
"I am very pleased to note that tonight, my friends, we have won enough delegates to claim with confidence, humility and a sense of great responsibility that I will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States," McCain told supporters in Dallas.
Perhaps the key to Clinton's success Tuesday was that she hammered Obama in recent weeks on a dizzying array of fronts, from charges that he is coddled and pampered by the national political press corps to a go-for-the-throat television ad questioning his ability to handle tough decisions on national security.
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