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SENATOR Barack Obama won the Wyoming contest to choose a Democratic presidential candidate on Saturday, CNN projected, giving his campaign a boost after losses earlier in the week kept him from knocking rival Hillary Clinton out of the race.

The small-state victory added to Obama`s lead over Clinton but left him far short of being able to clinch the nomination to run against Republican John McCain in the November general election.

Obama and Clinton are now focused on the contests in Mississippi on Tuesday and Pennsylvania on April 22.

Wyoming, dubbed cowboy country, has only 12 delegates, a tiny number compared to the 2,025 needed to secure the Democratic Party`s presidential nomination at its August convention.

But with no candidate yet able to lock in victory after eight long weeks of primaries, every vote and every delegate still counts in the battle to be the party`s nominee in the November presidential elections against Republican John McCain.

Perhaps more important, with only two contests before the end of April, every win carries weight in the battle for momentum with the candidates already eyeing Mississippi which holds its primaries on Tuesday.

In 23 caucuses around Wyoming, Democrats - only about 25 per cent of the staunchly Republican state`s electorate - were choosing between Clinton or Obama. And CNN said voters were excitedly flocking to the polls to take part.

In Casper, a city of 50,000, the caucus started about two hours late because of the overwhelming crowds, as election officials were greeted by a line snaking around the building.

A national Newsweek poll released Friday showed the two senators in a virtual tie in their epic battle, with Obama on 45 per cent support to Clinton`s 44 per cent.

The two were also virtually equal in voters` eyes on the issue many see most important: the sagging US economy.

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