Barack Obama Watch: Obama Wins Wyoming Caucuses

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. smiles as he walks around on stage during a campaign rally Friday March 7, 2008 in Laramie, Wyo.

Barack Obama has won the Wyoming Democrat Party Caucuses.

Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination.

Obama had 58 percent, or 4,138 votes, to Clinton’s 41 percent, or 2,876 votes with 21 of 23 Wyoming counties reporting.

Obama won at least seven delegates and Clinton won at least four, with one Wyoming delegate still to be awarded. In the overall race for the nomination, Obama led 1,578-1,467. It will take 2,025 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Obama will take the victory in a state, Wyoming, that has not been carried by a Democrat Presidential candidate since 1964.

This is in keeping with his strategy of winning in small red states.

But, this win will blunt any Hillary momentum (from Ohio and Texas) and now onto Mississippi (another red state) this next week where Obama is leading in the polls.