Bill Clinton said a joint Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket would be "almost unstoppable" even as Obama walloped the former First Lady in the Wyoming caucuses Saturday.

"Look at most of these places," the ex-President said while on the stump for his wife in Mississippi.

"[Obama] would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was President," he said. "If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force."

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Hillary Clinton has publicly been open to a joint Democratic ticket - with her in the top slot. Obama has said that such talk is premature and that he's running for President, not vice president.

Obama's Wyoming win was an expected - but welcome - victory after Clinton shellacked him in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island last week.

The Illinois senator defeated Clinton 61%-to-38% last night with all caucus sites reporting.

With Obama having racked up 11 consecutive primary wins before Clinton came back last Tuesday, both teams tried to frame Wyoming as a victory.

"This is a big win for us," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters. "You saw very furious campaigning by the Clinton campaign.... This was a closed contest that they lost by a huge margin."

Wyoming is not a winner-take-all state, and Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams said she was pleased with Clinton's take of five of the 12 delegates up for grabs.

"We are thrilled with this near-split in delegates and are grateful to the people of Wyoming, [although] the Obama campaign predicted victory in Wyoming weeks ago," she said in a statement.

As the rivals look ahead to delegate-heavy Pennsylvania's April contest, a new Newsweek poll shows that Clinton's March 4 wins have helped her obliterate Obama's national lead among Democrats.

Obama leads the New York senator 45% to 44% - a statistical tie - among party members in the new poll. By comparison, a late February CBS/New York Times survey had Obama 16 points ahead.

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