Wednesday, November 5, 2008

12:43 AM

Obama's win could be biggest here in 44 years

Obama is well on his way to posting the biggest margin of victory in Wisconsin for a presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson's crushing win over Barry Goldwater 44 years ago.

With almost 90 percent of the vote in, Obama had 1,460,700 votes, or 56.2 percent, to 1,103,808 votes, or 42.5 percent for McCain.

Since Johnson pulled in 62 percent of the vote in that 1964 race, the best showing by any candidate was Ronald Regan's 54.2 percent of the vote in 1984. Regan was also the last Republican to win Wisconsin.

Regan's margin of victory in 1984 was 202,953 votes. Johnson's margin was 411,929.

-- By JR Ross

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