Obama wins Washington state!

The Evergreen State goes heavily to the man from the Land of Lincoln

So it's two out of two so far tonight for Barack Obama, who has now been named the winner of the Democratic party's Washington state caucus.

With 99% of the results in, Obama has 68% to Hillary Clinton's 31%, his second substantial win of the evening following his victory by a similar margin in Nebraska. Washington state, though, is a much bigger fish: it has 78 pledged delegates at stake, and a quick calculation suggests Obama wins around 52 delegates, compared with 26 for Hillary Clinton - a net gain of 26 delegates for Obama.

Local media reports the usual huge turn-out in Washington, double the number who voted in 2004 and bringing out many who had never caucused before - showing again that the contest is generating wide interest among grassroots Democrats.