I found this little tidbit today about how Senator Obama's margin in Cook County (Chicago) pretty much accounts for most of Obama's popular vote margin over Clinton and that Obama's Cook County margin--429,000 is a bigger margin than anyone took from ANY state so far.
The Power of Cook County, Illinois
In the race for the most popular votes in the Democratic Party's presidential primary contests, Sen. Barack Obama's lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton is about 711,000 votes -- not including Florida or Michigan -- according to Real Clear Politics.
Of Sen. Obama's 711,000 popular-vote lead, 650,000 -- or more than 90% of the total margin -- comes from Sen. Obama's home state of Illinois, with 429,000 of that lead coming from his home base of Cook County.
That margin in Cook County represents almost 60% of Obama's total lead nationwide.
Interestingly, Sen. Obama's 429,000-vote margin in Cook County alone is larger than the winning margin of either candidate in any state.
Chicago Dems still know how to support their candidates better than anyone else in the country...
http://www.theneweditor.com/...
Kudos to the good folks in Cook County and to the Obama campaign for knowing exactly how important it was to run up the score in his home state! So happy that my state was more stingy with our home-state senator than Illinois was. In New York State, Clinton rolled up a plus 303,000 vote margin; in NYC it was only 110,000. What a difference between the two states which know each candidate the best.