Primary Update

In the Nebraska Caucus for the Democrats, it's Senator Barack Obama 68 percent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, 32 percent; in the precinct caucuses of Washington State for the Democrats, it's Senator Obama, 68 percent, Senator Clinton, 32 percent.

On the Republican side, the primary caucus has front-runner and likely nominee Senator John McCain with 27 percent; former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 26 percent, and Congressman Ron Paul with 21 percent in early returns.

As far as delegates go, because of the complex rules regarding delegate selection in these caucuses (the caucus being but the first step in the actual selection process), Senator Obama picked up 16 delegates of 31 tonight in Nebraska; the rest will be determined later. Delegates in other contests will also be determined in the future.

There are caucuses in Maine on Sunday for the Democrats which are the first step in a multi-step delegate selection process.

Current Democratic delegate count: Sen Clinton, 1079, Sen. Barack, 1017.
Current Republican delegate count: Sen. McCain, 724, former Masschusetts Governor Mitt Romney, 281 (he has dropped out of the race), Gov. Huckabee, 196, Cong. Paul, 14.

The exit polls in Louisiana show that Sen. Clinton won older voters over 60 and white voters; Sen. Obama won younger voters and African-America voters (50 percent of the caucus electorate in Louisiana) and he won both males and females in the caucus according to exit polling.

With 24 percent of the vote in, it's Sen. Obama 52, Sen. Clinton, 39.

These caucuses were expected to be for Sen. Obama and they are holding true to form, a good night for him. He is also expected to do well on Tuesday in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Sen. Clinton's strength will come in the bigger primaries in March in Texas and Ohio.

As I said, this is getting interesting.