By Prensa Latina
Washington : After winning the primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the capital, US Senator Barack Obama is leading Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
With the three wins yesterday, the legislator has had eight victories in an equal number of competitions in the last days, including the primaries in Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska, Virgin Island, and Maine.
In views of those defeats, Hillary Clinton replaced her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle by her advisor Maggie Williams, to give a new course to her plummeting electoral popularity.
Her deputy campaign manager Mike Henry also resigned last night.
According to polls, Obama stands as favorite in the Wisconsin and Hawaii elections next week, but his rival hopes to counteract the predicted triumphs by winning Texas and Ohio in March, two states with a considerable number of delegates.
After his success was confirmed last night, Obama gave a speech in Wisconsin, where he criticized the Iraqi invasion and called for a change in the white House.
To win the Democratic presidential nomination in the US, 2,025 delegates are needed .