Opinion: Obama scores a lightning-fast win

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The polls had been closed in Vermont for all of 10 seconds (if that) when the cable networks uniformly declared Barack Obama the winner in the Democratic presidential primary, based on exit poll data.

That makes it 12 in a row for him. But will the streak end there?

Based on the mood emanating from Hillary Clinton‘s camp during the day, as well as some of the early results from the exit polling (for instance, less-educated voters in Ohio breaking heavily for Clinton), that could well be the case.

Vermont stands as the latest example of Obama’s appeal in smaller states with minimal black populations. In Vermont, where the Iraq war is widely reviled, he clearly benefited from his early opposition to the conflict.

-- Don Frederick