What has been referred to as Super Tuesday 2 in the ongoing contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton won a close contest in Texas 51 to 48 percent, and defeated Obama in Ohio 54 to 44 percent. She also won in Rhode Island. Obama captured a win in Vermont.Her staff sent out a memo this morning stating that momentum in the race had spun back to Clinton, and that exit polls showed that voters who made up their minds in the last three days voted overwhelmingly for Clinton.
The memo also pointed out that Ohio has been a "bellwether state," that non candidate, Democrat or Republican, has won the presidency without winning Ohio.
Voters have begun to take a hard look at her opponent, Clinton said. Obama and his campaign have made news because of Tony Rezko, one of Obama's campaign contributors, going on trial for criminal charged in Chicago, and after a Canadian trade official claimed that an Obama campaign adviser suggested the candidates statements about the NAFTA were different from what his actually policy would be.
"This campaign is evolving," Clinton said. "New questions are being raised. New challenges are being put to my opponent."
In the midst of this victorious morning for Clinton, there has even been a hint of Obama as a Vice Presidential running mate.
"That may be where this is headed," Clinton said. "But of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said it should be me."
Clinton said that Democratic voters have begun to focus on who would be the best commander-in-chief.
And in the midst of all this, Senator John McCain officially became the Republican Presidential nominee.
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