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Obama's rise is strong, dynamic, and very popular.
Do you think the Clinton camp is shitting bricks, or what?

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Barack Obama's Momentum Grows
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Posted on February 20, 2008, Printed on February 20, 2008

What will Hillary Clinton do now? That is the question coming out of Tuesday's big win in Wisconsin for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), where exit polls found he drew voters from the very ranks that supported Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in prior primary and caucus states: women, white men, middle-aged voters and union households.

With 97 percent of precincts reporting, representing more than a million voters, Obama had 57 percent compared to 41 percent for Clinton. More notable than that solid margin of victory, which came after both candidates campaigned hard in Wisconsin, was the increasingly broad support that Obama appears to be generating.

According to exit polls, Obama won: all age groups under 65; white voters under age 60; all education levels; all income levels; all regions of the state -- rural, suburban and urban; and among Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Obama also won among voters who picked a candidate in the past week and among union members and union households, the exit poll data said. And he tied Clinton among women.

Wisconsin was the 9th contest Obama has won in a row. The exit polling also showed his support has been growing in key segments of the electorate since 2008's first primaries and caucuses. In New Hampshire, for example, Obama won 38 percent of the vote among white men. In Wisconsin, he won 62 percent. In New Hampshire, he won a third of voters age 50 to 60, while in Wisconsin he won more than half that group. And among people earning $30,000 to $50,000 a year, Obama also went from winning a third of those voters in New Hampshire to more than half in Wisconsin.

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