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On the campaign trail, the Democratic primary contest continues. NBC and ABC both followed Barack Obama to Seattle ahead of Washington State's caucuses. "He was playing to a huge crowd," marveled NBC's Lee Cowan, as 21,000 massed in downtown Seattle. ABC's David Wright (embargoed link) called the state "ecofriendly and latte rich" with the city's mayor and the state's governor endorsing Obama, and two senators and two representatives giving the nod to Hillary Rodham Clinton. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell saw the Republican race "begin to make the slow turn into General Election mode" as President George Bush offered an implicit, yet unnamed, endorsement to John McCain as carrying "the conservative banner." ABC's Ron Claiborne (embargoed link) called Bush's speech "not an endorsement but it was a signal." NBC's O'Donnell noted that McCain sees the downside in his near-certain victory in the nomination battle over Mike Huckabee: "He is convinced all the attention and media coverage will shift to the Democrats making it harder for him to stay in the news."
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