A full head of steam...

Obama swept this weekend's contests, winning Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and today capping it with a win in Maine.

But Joe Trippi, an adviser to former Democratic contender John Edwards, said Sunday Obama had "a full head of steam" after Saturday's wins and was poised to win this week's "Potomac Primaries" in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Clinton may hold a slight lead in delegates (every news organization has a different total and take on how to count them), but it's looking more and more like an Obama frontrunner-ship. The issue now is Clinton's desire to have the excluded states of Michigan and Florida (which the party locked out, delegate-wise, when they started moving around their primaries) re-included. An underhanded move, since it was agreed by all candidates that those states were not to be counted...yet she left her name on the ballot, when others did not, and now wants those non-competitive elections to count. And Clinton has not only had to loan her campaign money (Obama's campaign is, by contrast, raking in millions in response), she has shaken up her senior campaign staff. Looks like Hillary is on the ropes...and Obama is looking more and more like the race leader.

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