Obama Wins Wyoming---and Texas

Obama won the Wyoming caucuses Saturday with 61% of the vote to Hillary's 38%. He gets 7 delegates, she gets 4, and there's still one to be allocated.

Although it was hard information to find, the count of the Texas caucuses has proceeded to the point that Obama has an insurmountable lead, and he will earn at least 3 more delegates from the combined totals of primary and caucuses--so he has won Texas. In addition to the super-delegates who endorsed him in the past week, Obama picked up an additional 4 delegates (and Hillary lost 4) in the final certification of the primary in California.

So during the week that Hillary scored popular vote victories in three states, she fell further behind in delegates. And there's a primary in Mississippi on Tuesday.

In their latest Machiavellian scenario, both halves of Billary have been talking up the idea of Obama as v.p. on the ticket with Hillary. Apart from the hypocrisy of suggesting a candidate to be a heartbeat from the presidency who she is publicly saying isn't qualified to be president, it's a blatant attempt to steal votes from those who like Obama but are still torn about who to vote for. As for Obama, he told reporters flatly, "you won't see me running for vice-president."

In separate but related news, the so-called "safe" Republican seat in Illinois formerly occupied by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has gone to a Democrat, Bill Foster. Barack Obama endorsed and cut a campaign commercial for winner Foster. John McCain publicly supporter the loser, and so did the Republican National Committee, to the tune of over a million bucks.