Obama wins Wyoming, but ...

There was plenty of sound and fury ahead of the first contested Democratic presidential caucuses in Wyoming in 50 years. But the result -- a 61-38 win for Barack Obama -- was basically a wash: Obama won seven of the state's delegates while Hillary Clinton picked up the remaining five.

Of more importance, perhaps, is the moral victory Obama scored. He needed good news after a rough week, which started badly when reporters hounded him about NAFTA and Tony Rezko and got worse when he lost Texas. It even ended on a sour note when his senior foreign policy adviser resigned after being quoted in a Scottish magazine article calling Clinton a "monster."

Obama needed to restore order -- calm, really -- to his campaign. The 'W' in Wyoming should serve to steady the ship as Obama steers toward Tuesday's Mississippi primary.