Call it ethically questionable or politically brilliant, but the results were obvious. Hillary Clinton’s last-ditch fear-mongering - also known as the “red phone” or “3 a.m” ad - helped deliver huge wins in the Ohio and Texas primaries.

The controversial Clinton commercial featured sleeping children and asked voters to decide who they want protecting them -  implying not so subtly that Obama is an unknown commodity and that only Hillary will keep them safe.

Well, it turns out that footage is nearly a decade old, and one of those darling, sleeping kids - now 17 - is a huge Barack Obama supporter.

Casey Knowles, a Barack Obama volunteer in Washington State, was filmed eight years ago when she was working as a TV extra.

It is not clear what the material featuring Knowles was originally shot for, but Getty Images owns the footage and can do with it as it pleases.

Knowles, who turns 18 in April, told a Seattle TV station that she is for Obama all the way: “It’s really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary Clinton when I myself do not.”

Hard to argue with that.

In other news, Obama won the Wyoming caucuses Saturday, giving him a modest boost in the historic and tight race for the Democratic nomination.

The win in the nation’s least-populated state is hardly seen as a turning point, but every race counts, and Obama’s delegate lead is still pushing 100.

A Clinton spokesman responded that these results mean nothing, and that she had actually been planning on losing to Barack Obama by a margin of 61-38 percent in Wyoming during each of her amazing 35 years of experience.

Just kidding. Mostly.