"Landslide" is too strong a term for what happened Tuesday night, when the Illinois senator took at least 12 states to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's eight.
But as campaign manager David Plouffe characterized the race against Clinton in his second -- happier -- briefing for reporters, "This is a day they clearly thought they could put a punctuation mark on this, and they're not going to do it."
CNN called Utah for Obama and the crowd at the Hyatt party cheered. They analyzed Kansas and the crowd went wild. One network called Missouri for Clinton and then changed its mind -- perplexing in the least.
But by the time Obama took the stage shortly after the polls closed in California, it was clear that he was headed for the sweetest night of his campaign.
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