At the national level, campaigns and political journalists talk about the importance of “winning” the daily news cycle. The consensus seems to be that since his South Carolina victory, Obama’s won far more news cycles than Clinton—see the multi-day focus on his Kennedy endorsements; the Oprah appearance in Los Angeles yesterday; and the big, news-making crowds that appear wherever Obama shows up, even, recently, in Idaho.

You might not think anyone would currently be focused on winning the Washington State political news cycle with our primary still six days (and one Super Duper Tuesday) away. But while the Clinton campaign has been making very little news here, the Obama camp brought John Kerry through Seattle and Tacoma on Friday, released news of a Washington State ad buy on Thursday, and today is holding a press conference in Olympia to announce that a number of state legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, are endorsing Obama.

So as far as the relatively small Washington State political news cycle goes, Obama’s been winning it far more than Clinton—another sign, I would say, that his campaign is serious about taking Washington, either as a firewall to hold back a Clinton surge on Super Tuesday, or as a nail-in-the-coffin state if Obama does much better in California than expected.

Who else in our state legislature is supporting Obama? We’ll find out at noon today, but the Obama campaign hints that there’s more where Lisa Brown came from, saying the event in Olympia will feature “state legislators from Seattle, Vancouver, Tacoma, Kent, Spokane, Olympia, and other areas.”