What you're forgetting is that Obama is the underdog. a year ago who was Obama? The lease known of any Dem. Now he's the front runner and Hillary is playing catchup. This is like wanting to count the last preseason game in the NFL so you can make the playoffs. You agreed that the state would not count, but now you need it to win. Obama has the most delegates. He can also beat McCain by a larger margin.
Quite true--he started as unknown underdog-
The caucus's and media vaulted him ahead of Hilliary--mostly because of way her campaign was run and her persona--
Midway through primaries Obama hit his snag--he lost advantage of unknown.
Other than DC I don't see any extraordinary large margins from states out there for either side.
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and you think Oprah didn't get off the Bama train for a reason--
A Gallup poll conducted in October, shortly after Ms. Winfrey announced her support of Mr. Obama, found that her ?favorable? rating fell by 8 percentage points, to 66 percent, from 74 percent in January 2007; her ?unfavorable? mark jumped by more than half, to 26 percent from 17 percent.