Obama wins Neb., Wash. caucuses
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama won caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state and moved ahead in the Louisiana primary Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands with nearly 90 percent of the vote.
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He was winning roughly two-thirds of the vote in Washington state and Nebraska.
Early returns from Louisiana precincts showed him leading the former first lady, a black man hoping to extend a string of Southern primary triumphs that already included South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia.
Clinton made no mention of the night's contests as she appeared at a Democratic Party dinner in Virginia, site of one of three primaries this Tuesday.
Instead, she criticized Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee in all but name. ''We have tried it President Bush's way,'' she said, ''and now the Republicans have chosen more of the same.''
She left quickly after her speech, departing before Obama's scheduled arrival. But his supporters made their presence known, as chants of ''Obama'' floated up from the audience as she made her way offstage.