Clinton Wins Rhode Island & Obama Wins Vermont

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has won the Rhode Island primary, a win that breaks Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) 12-contest win streak and leaves Ohio and Texas as tiebreakers in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

With 13 percent of precincts in Rhode Island counted, Clinton led, 53 percent to 46 percent, but the Associated Press had already called the contest in her favor.

Ohio and Texas remained too close to call based on exit polling. Earlier in the night Obama won the Vermont Democratic presidential primary.

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The Vermont race was called by television networks and the independent organization conducting exit polling immediately upon the close of polls in the state at 7 p.m.

Obama was widely expected to claim Vermont and the majority of its 17 delegates. For Clinton, the more critical tests were in Ohio and Texas, where she is seeking to snap Obama’s now 12-contest winning streak and keep alive her chances at the Democratic presidential nomination.