by Nancy Cook
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama of Illinois speaks during a roundtable with Texans on housing and predatory lending on Tuesday in San Antonio. AP
Taken together with Hawaii, Obama now has 10 consecutive wins against Clinton, counting eight states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
Exit polls showed that Obama continued to make inroads into Clinton's base by splitting the vote among women, union households and households with less than $50,000 in annual income. He also managed a modest majority among white voters.
In his victory speech, Obama wasted no time before looking ahead to the next contests, to be held on March 4 in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. Speaking from a Houston stage and holding a sample ballot, he told supporters that early voting in Texas had already begun and asked them to help him secure more delegates.
"Houston, I think we've achieved liftoff," he said about his Wisconsin win.
On the Republican side, Arizona Sen. John McCain easily defeated former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Wisconsin's presidential primary. McCain's victory is likely to increase pressure on Huckabee to drop out of the race so that the Republican Party can unite behind a single candidate.
Huckabee has said he will remain in the race until either he or McCain secures the necessary delegates to win the GOP nomination. That would appear all but certain to happen on March 4
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From NPR reports and the Associated Press
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