By Charles Cadwallader

SEATTLE, WA – One week ago I was sitting in a jet on my way back to my home state of Washington, I had just spent the previous five days frantically running around Texas reporting what our professor has called the “primicaucus.”

Now I’m back in Seattle and still covering the ongoing nomination race in the Democratic Party, only now I’m doing it from my office instead of on the ground.

For those who I spoke to around Austin and Houston who sought to end the Clinton bid at the Democratic Nomination there was no such upset.

In the hours after the results from the primaries in Ohio and Texas were released there was a sudden rejuvenation of sorts within the Clinton camp.

The Washington Post writes:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won critically important victories in Ohio and Texas last night, defying predictions of an imminent end to her presidential candidacy and extending the remarkable contest for the Democratic nomination to Pennsylvania’s April primary and perhaps well into the summer.

Clinton also won in Rhode Island, while Sen. Barack Obama captured Vermont. Her victories snapped his winning streak at 12 consecutive contests, rejuvenated her struggling candidacy and jolted a Democratic Party establishment that was beginning to see Obama as the likely nominee.

Yet, there is something at work here.

In all estimates Obama hasn’t had the greatest of weeks. His 12 state winning streak has been broken and he lost the big primaries in Ohio and Texas.

Check on over at Daily Kos for a very good analysis of this bad week for Obama.

Basically, in the primaries Clinton took home four more delegates than Obama did. But the California vote was certified, swinging four votes for Obama, putting him up by four (an 8 vote swing total, 4 from Clinton, 4 to Obama). Then over the past week 13 super delegates came to Obama’s side while only 4 more came to Clinton.

So all in all, Obama had a bad week; he only gained 13 more delegates than Clinton did.

That’s not even talking about Mississippi and Wyoming.

His streak has been broken, but if Mississippi and Wyoming are any measure, the momentum is not.