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While Hillary Clinton ended her 12 state losing streak with victory in Rhode Island, the highly prized popular votes tonight in Texas and Ohio were still up for grabs.

But just recently, Ohio was called for Hillary before the 23rd hour on this Super Tuesday. With over 50% reporting a current margin of about 15%, her victory is pretty robust despite the state’s voting complications today.

(ADDENDUM:) Currently, to preempt any momentum change from a possible Obama victory in Texas, Sen. Clinton is making a victory speech in Ohio at this hour. The idea is to marginalize what is currently a close, and confusing, vote in Texas. Either way, now that she has won Ohio, I think there is no way that she will drop out before the Pennsylvania primary in April, where polling and the blue collar demographic similar to Ohio is favorable to her.

Additionally, here are the exit polls for Texas which look slightly better for Sen. Clinton. With more than half of precincts reporting the vote count is about tied, but Clinton’s numbers have been accelerating. Caucus numbers are expected to come in a little later, but it is expected that Obama will win a majority of the Texas caucus goers by enough of a margin such that he wins more actual delegates from the state even if Hillary wins the popular vote.

The minimal requirement of the night was met for Hillary Clinton, now, if she could pull out a popular victory in Texas she could meet a second milestone and perhaps capture overall momentum in this turbulent campaign.

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