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...race to Sununu by just four percent. Shaheen is not the only Harvard-affiliated Democrat whose electoral fortunes in a Senate race have improved this week. Mark Warner, a Harvard Law School graduate who served as Virginia’s governor from 2002 to 2006, won the Virginia primary on Tuesday, though his rival, Julien Modica, has yet to officially withdraw from the race. —Staff writer Lindsay P. Tanne can be reached at ltanne@fas.harvard.edu...
...Maryland and Virginia contests, which are open to all voters, could also have general election implications, testing Obama's appeal to independent and Republican voters. The Republican front-runner, Arizona Senator John McCain, is expected to win both G.O.P. primaries, but pundits and analysts will be examining the results to see how many Republicans may have switched over and which way the independents went: for Obama or McCain, who also has a history of appealing to voters across the aisle...
...force is Barack Obama. His sweep of the Potomac Primaries in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday gives him seven straight wins since Super Tuesday, not to mention his first lead in pledged delegates. Unprecedented amounts of money are pouring into his campaign coffers. He now has momentum that any challenger would envy in any year. Indeed, in any other year, a candidate with his numbers would have the nomination locked up tight...
...After Tuesday night's results, many observers will be tempted to declare that his current momentum is different, and that Obama is now truly unstoppable. In Virginia, Obama won around 64% of the vote, doing especially well not just with his expected bases of independents, young voters and African-Americans, but also besting Clinton at the segments touted as her strengths - older and blue-collar voters, and even women. His performance in Maryland, where he took around 60% of the vote, was equally impressive and broad-based...
...certainly don't factor momentum into any of our calculations," said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, on Tuesday afternoon. "We obviously did well on Saturday and Sunday but we don't think that has much relevance to what happens in the Mid-Atlantic. And whatever happens [in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia] is not going to have much impact in Wisconsin or Hawaii [next Tuesday...