US Pres. elections Republicans Root for Obama who is not the underdog anymore - by Fred Barnes
Republicans and Barack Obama are far apart ideologically, but they have a common enemy: Hillary Clinton. This explains why many Republicans look kindly on Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Republicans have two goals in the 2008 race. One is to retain the presidency. The other is to deny the Clintons--Hillary and Bill--another four (or eight) years in the White House.Barack Obama is the underdog no more.
The 46-year-old Illinois senator handed rival Hillary Clinton three more humbling defeats Tuesday night in the Democratic presidential race, winning easy victories in the so-called "Potomac primaries" in the U.S. capital region. Obama handily beat Clinton to win the Democratic primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He won almost 75 per cent of the vote in D.C. and almost two thirds in Virginia, a state with a large population of military personnel and government workers that was once considered fertile political ground for Clinton.
Even before the votes were tallied on Tuesday, Clinton already was looking ahead to another set of primaries in Ohio and Texas. She held a rally Tuesday night in El Paso. "I think just the fact that Barack Obama is in this place where Hillary Clinton has skedaddled out of town and is down in Texas, already just saying goodbye to these (Potomac) primaries, is a remarkable situation," said Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, an Obama supporter. "It's a remarkable statement." Clinton's campaign has also begun planning for yet another major showdown with Obama on April 22 in Pennsylvania.
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