From Feb. 9th to the Vermont polls on March 4th, Sen. Barack Obama won 11 straight states. Sen. Hillary Clinton countered by winning the following three polls that day, which included the states of Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. Now, Obama has won the last two primaries held in Wyoming and Mississippi. After the Mississippi polls closed on Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama won his 27th state out of the 43 states that have held primaries up to this point. Obama won the state of Mississippi earning 61% of the votes, according to the New York Times.
Barack Obama now leads Hillary Clinton by 106 total delegates (1,586-1,480), according to the Washington Post's, "Democratic Party Delegate Tally." The table also shows that, while Sen. Clinton trails in the total delegate count she remains 32 super delegates ahead of Obama. While Obama leads the democratic race, it is far from decided. At the rate that this race is going, it will take until the final primaries on June 3, in order to decide the true winner. For now, we will have to wait 39 days until the Pennsylvania primary to see whether Obama will win a third consecutive state or if Clinton will begin a new streak of her own.
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