Obama pummels Clinton

US: Senator Barack Obama swept the board Saturday pummeling Hillary Clinton in three Democratic nominating contests, as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money.

Obama, who is locked in a battle with Clinton for the party’s nomination, won big in Washington state, Nebraska and Louisiana, outscoring the former first lady by 2 to 1.

The Illinois senator, bidding to be the country’s first black president, swept Washington state and Nebraska with a staggering 68 percent of the vote. In Louisiana with 98 percent of precincts reporting, he was on 57 percent.

“We won north, we won south, we won in between,” Obama told 6,000 cheering guests in an electrifying speech to a Democratic dinner in Virginia.

Washington, Sunday, AFP