Obama carried Idaho with 80 percent of the vote against Hillary Clinton; in Kansas, where caucuses were held in each of the 40 state Senate districts, Obama won 74 percent. In the week’s 10 caucuses alone, Obama tallied more than twice as many delegates as Clinton, a net gain of 113 delegates that Clinton is still trying, vainly, to overcome. As Obama confronts his first prolonged downturn of the campaign - with a sequence of major primary losses to Clinton, a shrinking popular-vote margin, and new skepticism about his general-election viability - he continues to guard the slender but apparently insurmountable lead in pledged delegates accrued with wins in early February. After Obama won Iowa and Clinton won New Hampshire, Obama sent his well-regarded Iowa field director, Anne Filipic, to Utah, which he eventually won by a margin of 58 to 42 percent, earning five more delegates than Clinton. She has continued making that argument to the party’s superdelegates - that the states she has won prove her to be a stronger nominee even if they yielded fewer elected delegates - while Obama has maintained his numerical advantage and moved closer to the nomination. Read More