Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic Maine Caucus Sunday, February 10, making a clean sweep of all the Democratic caucuses and primaries over the weekend. Obama won the Louisiana Primary and the caucuses in Nebraska, Washington state, and the Virgin Islands Saturday. The victory in Maine made it four in a row and gives him the lead in won delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. However, Obama still trails Senator Hillary Clinton in total delegates because of the superdelegates pledged to her campaign thus far.

Obama took 15 of the 24 delegates tied to the caucus in Maine, winning 59 % of the vote. Clinton received 9 delegates, having pulled 40% of the vote.

According to CNN, Joe Trippi, an advisor to former Senator John Edwards' suspended campaign, Senator Clinton may not win another primary until Texas or Ohio. Trippi also stated that those states might be in jeopardy considering the amount of momentum Obama has picked up in the last two weeks.

This could be problematic for the Clinton camp, since there are elections in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, February 12. The demographics of these primaries favor Obama.

In a move perhaps resulting from the relative poor showing Clinton has had since Super Tuesday, Clinton representatives announced that the campaign was replacing campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with advisor Maggie Williams. The Clinton camp is looking towards March and the large primaries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas to downplay any successes Obama may have throughout February.

Caucuses and primaries weren't the only things Barack Obama won during the weekend. At Sunday night's Grammy Awards, the senator from Illinois beat out two former presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, to win Best Spoken Word Album for the recording of his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

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"Obama wins Maine caucus, CNN projects," CNNPolitics.com

"Election Center 2008: Primaries & Caucuses," CNNPolitics.com