Stories for March 9, 2008

After Wyoming: a reality check on the campaigns

Barack Obama won Saturday's Wyoming caucuses handily and should win Tuesday's Mississipi primary as well. Depending on which tally you believe, that will leave Obama somewhere between 110 and 125 delegates ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, with only a few more state contests to go. Cutting through the spin, here is what you should and should not believe about the Obama-Clinton race as it enters its next phase, beginning with the April 22 Pennsylvania primary in which Clinton is favored.

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