Obama, McCain Sweep Potomac Primaries
02.12.08 -- 7:24 PM
On a primary winning streak, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has swept the so-called Potomac primaries today, overwhelming defeating Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in Democratic contests in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, won primaries in Maryland and Washington, D.C. and battled back insurgent candidate Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, in a Virginia primary made close by a high turnout among conservatives and Christian evangelicals.
"Today, the change we seek swept through the Chesapeake and over the Potomac. We won the state of Maryland. We won the Commonwealth of Virginia. And though we won in Washington D.C., this movement won't stop until there's change in Washington," Obama told supporters at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin tonight.
"We are bringing together Democrats and Independents and Republicans; blacks and whites; Latinos and Asians; small states and big states; Red States and Blue States into a United States of America," Obama said. "This is the new American majority."
Clinton's defeat in the Virginia primary crushed what may have been Clinton's best chance at a Potomac primary win.
Clinton had hoped to perform strongly in Virginia's rural communities and among women and the state's sizeable Hispanic and immigrant population, but Obama ultimately prevailed in the state.
Ignoring her losses tonight, Clinton addressed a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas -- once of the states she is focusing her campaign on winning on March 4.
"I need you to stand up for me because, because if we stand up together, if we work together, if we fight together, we will take back American and we will make history together," Clinton said.
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