Obama wins most delegates in Tuesday's primaries
Sen. Barack Obama climbed within 200 delegates of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination based on a split decision in Tuesday's primaries.
Obama won most of the delegates at stake in the two contests, picking up at least 97 delegates in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, according to an analysis of election returns by The Associated Press. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won at least 86 delegates, with four still to be awarded.
Each state had two delegates outstanding. Results were delayed because both states have counties split into multiple congressional districts, and election workers were still assigning those votes to the proper districts on Wednesday.
Like other Democratic contests, North Carolina and Indiana awarded delegates proportionally, based on statewide results as well as votes in individual congressional districts.
In the overall race for the nomination, Obama led with 1,846.5 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton had 1,696.
That leaves Obama just 178.5 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to secure the Democratic nomination.
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Posted By: Huachuca @ 05/08/2008 3:19:07 PM
Comment: Alvy, to you I promise to ALWAYS be an A$$. To most everyone else, I'll be nice.
Posted By: Rob-is-right @ 05/08/2008 2:14:44 PM
Comment: Shrillary has played the race card again!!!!!!
May 8, 2008
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Posted: 12:03 PM ET
Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday.
(CNN) ??? In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama???s candidacy.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY.
Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22.
Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way.
"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."
From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Barack Obama ??? Hillary Clinton
Posted By: Rob-is-right @ 05/08/2008 2:14:33 PM
Comment: Shrillary has played the race card again!!!!!!
May 8, 2008
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Posted: 12:03 PM ET
Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday.
(CNN) ??? In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama???s candidacy.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY.
Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22.
Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way.
"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."
From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Barack Obama ??? Hillary Clinton