Obama's strategy of allowing Hillary Clinton to dominate the news media since her West Virginia landslide is unnerving. There is a danger that his margin in May 20 Oregon primary might be affected by that.

With her West Virginia win, Clinton cut into Obama's popular vote by over 100,000 votes and could even do the same thing or maybe even more on May 20 in Kentucky. So it doesn't seem like a good idea for him to stop campaigning even if he doesn't think he's going to win a particular state.

I was with Jesse Jackson in the 80s campaign and his mantra, maybe even to a fault, was that the media is the message and you dominate the media. Hillary Clinton dominates the media.

I'm also troubled by the media's focus on white blue-collar ethnic voters, especially since the West Virginia primary.

Two out of ten voters in West Virginia said race was a consideration. And eight out of ten of them voted for Hillary Clinton. That has to be tempered however, by the fact that Barack Obama didn't campaign vigorously in the state--a tactical decision with which I disagree.

West Virginia--and now, Kentucky--offered Obama the opportunity to seize the John Edwards mantle on ending poverty in America. It would have been great for him to emulate John F. Kennedy's stance in the 1960s. Go into either or both of these states and say, "People say that I'm not anticipated to win here and that I'm the underdog. But I want to lay out what I believe is important relative to the issues of poverty and economic development and under development for the country."

Since neither he nor Hillary Clinton has addressed poverty, taking over Edwards' position would have gained him greater traction. And even if Obama lost he would have outlined a major policy statement on the nature of poverty in America and why we need to overcome it.

From a psychological point of view, Clinton is on the offensive. Obama needs to be also. Not campaigning in West Virginia and Kentucky and going to Michigan and Missouri instead is a tactical move that some see as arrogant and with which I disagree.

Sometimes, Obama's campaign rests on their laurels instead of moving full speed ahead until you clench.

Ron Daniels, PhD is president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and is the former executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.