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RESULTS: APRIL 22, 2008
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Democrats Vote % Del
Clinton 1,097,530 55 52
Obama 895,407 45 46
89% of precinctsUpdated: 11:21 PM
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McCain 486,086 72 -
Paul 106,996 16 -
Huckabee 78,578 12 -
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PHILADELPHIA -- Unable to pull off an upset in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, Barack Obama swiftly moved on Tuesday night to Indiana, in anticipation that the hotly contested battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for their party's nomination would persist for at least another two weeks.
The Associated Press declared the former first lady the winner based on early returns and surveys of voters as they left the polls. Obama didn't stick around for the results, scheduling a rally Tuesday night in Evansville, Ind., with entertainment from Indiana's working-class hero, rocker John Mellencamp. Indiana and North Carolina, the next states in the primary lineup, vote May 6.
KEYSTONE VOTE: Clinton takes Pa. contest
INTERACTIVE: Track the race for delegates
Earlier in the day, Obama described himself as an underdog in the Pennsylvania primary and at the same time his party's all-but-certain presidential nominee.
The Illinois senator -- leading in national polls, states won and pledged delegates -- spent plenty of time and money trying to prevent a double-digit, momentum-building blowout for Clinton. Clinton was running ahead in the western part of the state, according to the Associated Press. But Obama was ahead in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
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In an interview Tuesday with XM satellite radio, Obama said with a laugh that "a win is 50 plus one" and anything else is a loss. But throughout the day, he repeatedly said he had made great progress in Pennsylvania and predicted he will be the party nominee.
"We were down 20," Obama told reporters at a Pittsburgh diner on Tuesday, referring to early polls of the state. "So this was always an uphill climb."
Surveys of voters leaving the polls showed Obama winning more than 90% of black voters and 60% of first-time voters. He won about four in 10 senior citizens -- a group that has been solidly for Clinton.
Obama predicted the nomination race would continue "until the last primary or caucus vote is cast" on June 3 and that Tuesday's results would not affect the outcome. He said he will win the nomination and dismissed Clinton's argument that he can't capture states in the general election that she won in the primary.
"There is going to be a clear contrast between the economic message between the Democrats and the Republicans," Obama said. He said he will ultimately win over older or blue-collar voters who currently prefer Clinton and "the party is going to come together after the nomination is settled."
After Tuesday night's rally, Obama plans to campaign today in New Albany, Ind., before going home to Chicago. He'll be back in Indiana on Friday.
The Pennsylvania contest came six weeks after Obama won the Mississippi primary, a political eternity fraught with challenges and setbacks. Some were self-inflicted, such as his remark that small-town voters here are "bitter" about their economic circumstances and "cling to guns or religion or anti-pathy toward people who aren't like them." Clinton and others seized on that to argue that Obama was out of touch with small-town America.
Then there was last week's ABC News debate in which Obama was forced to revisit several controversies and address new ones. Obama lost to Clinton by double digits among voters who decided in the past week, according to the survey of voters at the polls.
A number of built-in factors also complicated Obama's task -- among them Clinton's roots in Scranton; her backing from party leaders such as Gov. Ed Rendell; high concentrations of voters who supported her heavily in past primaries, such as senior citizens and working-class whites; and "some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," as Rendell told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in February.
Obama countered Clinton's advantages with money -- by some estimates he spent nearly three times as much as she did on TV -- and a drive earlier this year to get independents and Republicans to switch their voter registrations so they could participate in the primary, which was open only to Democrats.
State officials said nearly 219,000 people registered to vote this year, 70% of them as Democrats. Also, more than 164,000 people changed their affiliation to Democratic.
Obama was also boosted by an endorsement from Democratic Sen. Robert Casey, part of a Pennsylvania political family revered by many Catholics and working-class voters.
The pair traversed the state playing basketball, bottle-feeding milk to a calf, sampling chocolate, tooting a train whistle and, in Obama's case, trying to bowl.
"It didn't go so well," Obama joked of his gutter-ball debacle Monday night to 10,000 people at a rally in Pittsburgh.
Still, he said, he had "fun in Pennsylvania."
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Clintons push a Hillary/Obama ticket
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady.
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In talking up a joint ticket, the Clintons may be seeking the upper hand, attempting to put her in consideration for the top of the ticket when she so far has failed to win the votes necessary to assure that she would face Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the November election.
The maneuver may also be aimed at countering an image in voters' minds of Obama as presidential material and at helping restore an aura of inevitability as the party's nominee that Clinton had early in the campaign but lost.
"The Clintons are in a difficult position," said Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University in Iowa, who has tracked the presidential race.
"If she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, she would need Obama's supporters. But she needs to be careful. If this talk of him on the ticket is seen as a cynical maneuver, it could backfire and hurt her," Goldford said.
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, an Obama backer, mocked the idea.
"It may be the first time in history that the person who is running number two would offer the person running number one the number two position," Daschle told "Meet the Press."
Obama leads Clinton, a fellow Democratic senator, in a bruising race for their party's presidential nomination, but neither is likely to reach the 2,025 delegates needed to become the nominee in the remaining state-by-state contests.
As Democratic leaders worry about the damage that could be done if neither has a clear lead by the August nominating convention, the party is also trying to decide what to do about election results from Michigan and Florida that do not count because of a dispute over when they were held.
The Clintons have charged that Obama, a charismatic lawmaker from Illinois, lacks the experience to handle an international crisis as president.
But since Clinton, a two-term senator from New York, won primary elections in Ohio and Texas, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have touted Obama as a possible running mate.
When asked about the possibility last week, Obama said he was focused on winning the nomination. "I think it is very premature to start talking about a joint ticket," Obama said.
His campaign said on Sunday it was not commenting on Clinton's calls for a joint ticket beyond what the Illinois senator had already said.
'UNSTOPPABLE FORCE'?
Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who has endorsed Obama, derided the suggestion. "The first threshold question about a vice president is, are you prepared to be president?" Kerry told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"So on the one end, they are saying he's not prepared to be president. On the other hand, they're saying maybe he ought to be vice president," Kerry said.
Campaigning on Saturday, in Mississippi, the former president was quoted as saying his wife and Obama would be a dynamic duo, "an almost unstoppable force."
The candidate implied last week she and Obama may end up on the same ticket, with her on top.
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell, a Democratic who has sought to rally support for Clinton in his state's April 22 primary, backed the idea of Clinton and Obama teaming up. "It would be a great ticket," Rendell told NBC's "Meet the Press."
(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan in Chicago and Bill Trott in Washington, editing by Cynthia Osterman and Lori Santos)
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Clintons push a Hillary/Obama
ticket By Thomas Ferraro
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady.
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In talking up a joint ticket, the Clintons may be seeking the upper hand, attempting to put her in consideration for the top of the ticket when she so far has failed to win the votes necessary to assure that she would face Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the November election.
The maneuver may also be aimed at countering an image in voters' minds of Obama as presidential material and at helping restore an aura of inevitability as the party's nominee that Clinton had early in the campaign but lost.
"The Clintons are in a difficult position," said Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University in Iowa, who has tracked the presidential race.
"If she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, she would need Obama's supporters. But she needs to be careful. If this talk of him on the ticket is seen as a cynical maneuver, it could backfire and hurt her," Goldford said.
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, an Obama backer, mocked the idea.
"It may be the first time in history that the person who is running number two would offer the person running number one the number two position," Daschle told "Meet the Press."
Obama leads Clinton, a fellow Democratic senator, in a bruising race for their party's presidential nomination, but neither is likely to reach the 2,025 delegates needed to become the nominee in the remaining state-by-state contests.
As Democratic leaders worry about the damage that could be done if neither has a clear lead by the August nominating convention, the party is also trying to decide what to do about election results from Michigan and Florida that do not count because of a dispute over when they were held.
The Clintons have charged that Obama, a charismatic lawmaker from Illinois, lacks the experience to handle an international crisis as president.
But since Clinton, a two-term senator from New York, won primary elections in Ohio and Texas, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have touted Obama as a possible running mate.
When asked about the possibility last week, Obama said he was focused on winning the nomination. "I think it is very premature to start talking about a joint ticket," Obama said.
His campaign said on Sunday it was not commenting on Clinton's calls for a joint ticket beyond what the Illinois senator had already said.
'UNSTOPPABLE FORCE'?
Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who has endorsed Obama, derided the suggestion. "The first threshold question about a vice president is, are you prepared to be president?" Kerry told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"So on the one end, they are saying he's not prepared to be president. On the other hand, they're saying maybe he ought to be vice president," Kerry said.
Campaigning on Saturday, in Mississippi, the former president was quoted as saying his wife and Obama would be a dynamic duo, "an almost unstoppable force."
The candidate implied last week she and Obama may end up on the same ticket, with her on top.
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell, a Democratic who has sought to rally support for Clinton in his state's April 22 primary, backed the idea of Clinton and Obama teaming up. "It would be a great ticket," Rendell told NBC's "Meet the Press."
(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan in Chicago and Bill Trott in Washington, editing by Cynthia Osterman and Lori Santos)
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Clintons promote dream team, but with Hillary No.1
By David Nason in New York
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BARACK Obama had little time to bask in his win in the Wyoming Democratic caucuses yesterday.
Almost as soon as the victory was announced - allowing him to in part bounce back from a horror week in which he lost the Ohio and Texas primaries to Hillary Clinton - his celebration was overshadowed by Team Clinton's continued emphasis on the possibility of Senator Obama becoming her running mate in the November election.
The "dream ticket" strategy is aimed at persuading Democrats unable to decide between the two history-making candidates that by voting for Senator Clinton they can also get Senator Obama.
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It's also being put up as a compromise plan for the so-called Democrat "super delegates" whose votes will decide who gets the presidential nomination if the primary process is unable to throw up a nominee prior to the party's national conference in Denver in August.
With just 12 pledged delegates up for grabs, Wyoming was more a skirmish than a battle. But after Senator Clinton's campaign-saving victories last week, Senator Obama needed a strong win to put his presidential bid back on course.
Wyoming's Democrats answered the call, giving Senator Obama 61 per cent of the vote to Senator Clinton's 38 per cent. Senator Obama will get at least seven of the 18 delegates on offer and Senator Clinton at least four.
Six delegates will go to Denver unpledged. Senator Obama has now won 13 caucuses to Senator Clinton's three. He has made himself the favoured Democrat in the old West with the Wyoming victory following previous wins in the western states of Idaho, Utah and Colorado.
But as the Wyoming results were coming through, former president Bill Clinton told a rally in Mississippi that his wife was "very open" to having Senator Obama as her running mate in November's election. He said a Clinton-Obama ticket would be "almost unstoppable".
Mr Clinton's remarks followed the two occasions last week when Senator Clinton raised the dream-ticket option. At a town hall rally in Mississippi, on Friday, Senator Clinton said: "I've had people say, 'Well, I wish I could vote for both of you'. Well, that might be possible some day. But first I need your vote on Tuesday."
In response, Senator Obama said: "You won't see me as a vice-presidential candidate. I am running for president."
He cited his campaign's higher popular vote, higher delegate count and greater number of states and said he was focused on "winning this nomination and changing the country".
Senator Obama was last week forced to accept the resignation of his key foreign policy adviser, Samantha Powers, who told a Scottish newspaper Senator Clinton was a "monster" who was "stooping to anything".
The Irish academic also suggested Senator Obama might not be able to fulfil his planned Iraq withdrawal strategy.
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NAFTA leak reveals U.S.-Canada divide
In Ottawa this week, the politics of hope runs smack into the politics of cynicism
Mar 08, 2008 04:30 AM
OTTAWA–Several weeks ago, as the U.S. presidential race was growing more fascinating by the day, ChaptersIndigo warned its Canadian online customers that Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, was on back order – delivery would be delayed by weeks.
It was one small indication of the fascination in this country with the Illinois senator blazing through the race for the Democratic nomination. There are tributes and Canadian fan groups on Facebook, too, and one earnest little YouTube ballad called "Canada Loves Obama."
After this week, however, it's not clear that Obama would say he returns the sentiment – at least not as far as it extends to Canada's Conservative government.
Either accidentally or deliberately – and that's at the nub of the controversy – Prime Minister Stephen Harper's administration stands accused this week of leaking information that hurt Obama, specifically in Ohio, where free trade is a burning issue. In brief, word emerged from this country that Obama was saying one thing about NAFTA on the campaign trail and another behind the scenes to Canadian consular officials.
Hillary Clinton won Ohio handily on Tuesday and her advisers candidly admitted in the aftermath that Obama had been wounded by the so-called Canada controversy.
This is all interesting in itself, but then there was the bombshell revelation Wednesday night that the origin of all this Obama trouble was Harper's own chief of staff, Ian Brodie, who was talking off the cuff to journalists during a federal budget lockup in Canada. An internal investigation is still under way in Ottawa about the leak, but there now seems little question that the very highest office in Canada played a part in this whole episode.
Perhaps, when Obama wants to write the sequel to his much sought-after book, he might want to call this chapter "Audacity versus Hope." It isn't often you see Canada in the news at all in the U.S., let alone cast as a sleeper agent in a bid to rattle the Democrats.
There are many ways to analyze NAFTAgate, or Canada-bama, or whatever one wants to call it.
But perhaps the most fascinating aspect is through the lens of political culture – and how this whole episode has highlighted the cultural differences between Obama's campaign and Harper's Ottawa. Where is Canada's Obama? Nowhere in sight on the current federal scene, and certainly not in the current power regime.
On one side is Obama's oratorical inspiration; his appeal to citizen empowerment – "Yes We Can." On the other side of the political-culture divide, and the 49th parallel, is the strict, all-discipline-all-the-time regime of politics, Harper-style – call it "No You Can't." Some might cast this distinction as naïveté versus realism. Others might say it's hope versus cynicism – big ambitions versus small, low-expectations government.
And then there's the issue of whether Harper is just another Republican foe for Obama and Democrats in general. A recent Canadian Press-Harris Decima poll showed that 49 per cent of Canadians would cast their ballots for the Democrats if they had a vote in the U.S. election – and only 12 per cent for Republicans – which only makes it more paradoxical that our government would be seen to be playing for the other side.
Yesterday, yet another Canadian Press-Harris Decima survey showed if Obama led either Canadian party, he would double its public support. It's probably not a surprise that some of Obama's biggest fans in Canada are opponents of Harper. Liberal MP Navdeep Bains, the party's critic on Canada-U.S. relations, says that by his estimate, Liberals are pretty evenly divided in support for Clinton and Obama, with much of the younger generation of Liberals more attracted to Obama's message. Bains himself won't say where he stands – unlike Deputy leader Michael Ignatieff, for instance, who's been unabashed and open in his admiration for the Obama campaign. Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion, talking to the Star's editorial board yesterday, said he's impressed by how many people are following the race closely, but he remained tactful about who he favours.
"I will learn from each of them – how to communicate as Mr. Obama and have as strong views as Madame Clinton," Dion said.
For several years now, Harper has been repeatedly painted as a Republican-style leader, welded to the politics of George W. Bush and the tactics of his chief strategist, Karl Rove. Republican consultants such as Fred Luntz have been brought in to trade strategies with Harperites such as Tom Flanagan, the former Conservative campaign chief. The Liberals went to the trouble last year to put all the Harper-Bush similarities into one multi-media package, which they presented at a press conference to reporters – complete with telephoto-lens shots of Republican posters on the walls of offices in the PMO enclave.
So any foe of Bush's is seen to be a foe of Harper's, too – that includes Obama, and Clinton.
New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton has been hammering away at the Canada-Obama issue all this week and appeared on CNN Thursday night. He says Canadians are offended by the slight to Obama because they're caught up in the slipstream of the demand for change in the U.S. – change from Bush's approach to politics, and by extension, Harper's too.
Canadians, says Layton, "have been concerned about the Bush administration for years...And now they see the prospect that those policies could change with a change in the White House whether it's with the first woman president, whether it's with the first black president...Canadians are intimately concerned. They're excited. They're following this."
That's why, says Layton, they're now embarrassed for their government to be seen as meddling. "To have our government step in, in a fashion that jeopardizes the success of either of these two candidates, is something that has a lot of Canadians deeply concerned and rightly so."
Bob Rae, the Liberals' foreign affairs critic, says only those who are romanticizing politics want to pitch this battle as one of Obama's hope versus Harper's audacity or cynicism.
"This is about a Republican farm team in Canada doing what it can for McCain and Republicans," Rae says. "They think the same character assassination they're using on Dion can work on Obama...Don't romanticize this. It's about politics. The Harperites are trying to kill another liberal. Period."
Of course, this raises questions about the Liberals' and New Democrats' neutrality toward the U.S. presidency, as well. When all is said and done, this week highlighted once again that there's a political-culture divide between current events in the U.S. and Canada. Though few Canadians have a say in all this talk of hope and change, they seem to feel they have a stake in it. And now, thanks to events from the government, they are also players.
That's audacity, indeed, but Canadians may still be asking: Where's the hope?
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Prediction markets now see Obama defeating Clinton
Mon Feb 11, 12:54 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Traders wagering on the outcome of the U.S. presidential vote were overwhelmingly betting on Monday that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will defeat former first lady Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and ultimately win the presidency.
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Obama, whose campaign swept four state Democratic presidential contests against Clinton over the weekend, was trading at about 70 on Monday on the Dublin, Ireland-based Intrade predictions market, meaning traders gave him a 70 percent chance of being the Democrats' presidential candidate in the November election.
Clinton, who replaced her campaign manager in a staff shake-up, was selling at about 30, meaning traders gave her a 30 percent chance of winning the Democratic nomination, data on the Intrade web site showed.
Traders on the Iowa Electronic Markets, a nonprofit exchange run by researchers at the University of Iowa, had similar expectations, giving Obama a 70 percent chance of winning the nomination and Clinton about a 27 percent chance.
Researchers who study political forecasting markets say their predictive power is comparable to opinion polls. Contracts are generally structured so prices can be read as the percentage likelihood of a candidate winning the race.
Arizona Sen. John McCain was the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination, with Intrade traders giving him nearly a 95 percent chance of winning.
His rival Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, was given only about a 2.5 percent chance of winning, despite winning two of three state contests over the weekend. The two Republican candidates were given similar chances by traders on the Iowa exchange.
Intrade traders gave Obama a 46 percent chance of winning the presidency, versus 33 percent for McCain and 20 percent for Clinton.
As recently as January 1 traders were giving Clinton about a 70 percent chance of winning the Democratic nomination. But expectations about Clinton's candidacy tumbled after the first of the year, dropping below 30 percent after she lost the Iowa presidential contest to Obama.
Her New Hampshire victory surprised the forecasting markets and she recovered to trade between 55 and 70 until the days after February 5, when nearly half the U.S. states chose presidential candidates. Since then expectations have been falling and Clinton has lost several state contests to Obama.
2008 Straw Poll results Barack Obama, 33%; Hillary Clinton, 24%
by vamonticello, Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 04:00:21 PM EST
DEMOCRATS RELEASE THE RESULTS
OF `STRAW POLL' ON THE CANDIDATES
The Redding Democratic Town Committee conducted a "straw poll" on June 10 at the Georgetown Day festival. The poll, which was nonscientific and permitted registered Democrats, Republicans and independents from Redding and surrounding towns to participate, asked which of the potential Democratic candidates voters would like to see head the national Democratic ticket as the party's nominee. The results are as follows: Barack Obama, 33%; Hillary Clinton, 24%; Al Gore (write in), 13%; John Edwards, 10%; Bill Richardson, 6%; Chris Dodd, 5%; Joe Biden, 4%; and Dennis Kucinich, 4%. (Note: Percentages do not total 100% due to rounding.)
If only Democratic voters are counted, the party's registrants indicated the following results: Hillary Clinton, 28%; Barack Obama, 27%; Al Gore (write in), 15%; John Edwards, 12%; Dennis Kucinich, 6%; Bill Richardson, 5%; Joe Biden, 4%; and Chris Dodd, 4%. (Note: Percentages do not total 100% due to rounding.)
Fifty percent of participating independent and Republican voters favored Barack Obama as the nominee of the Democratic Party.
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nice straw polls..The thing i'll take from those numbers is, independents and republicans likes Obama..50% of independents and republicans voting for Obama is a lot..
It might not make the leftist blogs happy, but for Obama to beat hillary, he will have to court those folks that arent partisan democrats.
by JaeHood on Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 04:07:19 PM EST
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or he will have to convince enough partison dems not to cut off thier nose to spite thier face with Hillary.
Obama! because 51% isn't enough!
by nevadadem on Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 04:08:44 PM EST
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Many states don't allow independants or republicans (be they moderate or otherwise) to vote in a democratic primary. Some states do allow cross-over voting, but people don't generally do so in large numbers. NH indys do tend to vote in whichever primary is showing all the action and currently they are saying they intend to vote in the democratic primary, but that could change. People also aren't likely to re-register enmass in order to vote in a democratic primary.
Obama would need indys and moderate republicans for a big win in the general, but they aren't going to do him much good in the primary. He's going to have to convince democrats in order to become the democratic nominee
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Clinton, Obama Split States in Super Tuesday Contests (Update6)
By Kristin Jensen and Ken Fireman
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Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split victories on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton won Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee, while Obama took Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, North Dakota and Utah, according to projections from television networks and the Associated Press.
Voters in 22 states participated in today's Democratic nominating contests; results are still being tallied. New York, Illinois and California are among the day's biggest prizes, though a candidate can take a portion of the delegates in any state without winning the contest there outright.
With the vote so closely matched, officials in both campaigns say they expect the battle for the nomination to extend beyond today's Super Tuesday balloting. Obama, an Illinois senator, and Clinton, a New York senator, had each won two of the four contested elections before today.
Obama, 46, who is vying to become the nation's first black president, was doing the best among African-American voters, men and voters under the age of 50, according to exit polls cited by MSNBC.
Obama got 80 percent of the black vote nationwide, compared with 17 percent for Clinton, according to the exit polls. Among whites, Clinton led 51 percent to 44 percent. Obama got 53 percent of men to Clinton's 42 percent. Clinton led among women who made up 57 percent of Democratic voters today, 51 percent to 46 percent, MSNBC said.
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Clinton, 60, was leading in polls of voters in most Feb. 5 states until Obama won a landslide victory in South Carolina on Jan. 26. In recent days, Obama, 46, had closed the gap with Clinton in a number of states or moved ahead; the two are also deadlocked in national polls.
Georgia was the first state to finish voting tonight, and Obama led there with 62 percent of the vote, compared with 35 percent for Clinton, with 70 percent of precincts reporting. About half the state's Democratic voters are black.
The Clinton campaign trumpeted its projected win in Massachusetts, where Governor Deval Patrick and Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry backed Obama. Clinton led in the state with 57 percent of the vote, compared with 40 percent for Obama, with 52 percent of precincts reporting.
`Big Deal'
The Massachusetts win was ``a very big deal,'' said Clinton spokesman Jay Carson. ``What we've seen tonight is what we've been predicting -- this is going to be a very close election,'' Carson said. ``There's a long way to go before we're going to have a nominee.''
Obama and Clinton were essentially tied in a poll of California voters released as balloting began there. The state's large population of Hispanic voters may help Clinton; exit polls cited by MSNBC showed that she was winning 61 percent of the Hispanic vote nationwide.
Clinton's campaign was already looking beyond today. Her top adviser earlier today called for weekly debates with Obama until March 4, when nominating contests are held in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont. Obama hasn't ruled out debates as the primary battle continues, said David Plouffe, his campaign manager.
A candidate needs 2,025 votes at the Democratic convention in August to win the nomination and Obama was leading in the number of delegates elected through primaries and caucuses. Before today, he had 63 to Clinton's 48, according to The Green Papers, a nonpartisan Web site that compiles election statistics.
Super Delegates
Clinton has an edge among so-called super delegates, Democratic officeholders and party officials who get a vote at the convention and aren't bound by election results. Coming into today, Clinton had 190 of those delegates in her corner, compared with 104 for Obama, according to The Green Papers.
``We expect to maintain our current overall lead in delegates on Feb. 6,'' Howard Wolfson, a top Clinton adviser, told reporters on a conference call yesterday. Wolfson predicted that the current round of voting would be ``inconclusive'' in singling out a front-runner for the nomination.
Plouffe, meanwhile, sent a memo yesterday to reporters saying he expected Clinton to still win California and a larger share of delegates because of ``her huge head start'' among the Super Tuesday states. ``If we were to be within 100 delegates on that day and win a number of states, we will have met our threshold for success,'' Plouffe said.
Obama won the first contest of the nominating race, with a victory in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. Clinton then won the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary and Jan. 19 Nevada caucuses.
To contact the reporters on this story: Kristin Jensen in Washington at kjensen@bloomberg.net ; Ken Fireman in Washington at Kfireman1@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: February 5, 2008 22:23 EST
Exit poll results nationwide
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was strongly supported by Hispanics and people seeking an experienced candidate, but Barack Obama was eating into her usual dominance of women and whites, in early national exit polls Tuesday. A coalition of black, young, white and higher-income voters were flocking to Obama.
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On the Republican side, preliminary data from exit polls of voters in 16 states showed Sen. John McCain getting strong support from moderates and people valuing experience and leadership. He and Mitt Romney were battling for an edge among party regulars, while Romney was getting strong backing from the GOP's most conservative voters and people wanting a strong stance against illegal immigrants.
Obama, an Illinois senator, was getting support from more than four in 10 women and about the same number of whites, leaving him just a few percentage points behind Clinton. That was a narrower deficit than he has faced in most states that have held nominating contests so far, with part of his strength coming from people under age 44, whom he was dominating.
In Oklahoma, a state Clinton won overall, there was no gender gap for her; she won among men and women. McCain won in New Jersey and Connecticut, where nearly half the voters were moderates and liberals who strongly support him. He also won in Illinois, a state dominated by conservative GOP voters, in part because Huckabee and Romney split most of the conservative vote, while the three rivals shared support from evangelicals.
Nationally, Obama was getting the backing of eight in 10 blacks, his usual margin. But Clinton, a New York senator, was countering with strong support from Hispanics, about six in 10 of whom were supporting her. Much of that strength came from Hispanic women and from the oldest Latino voters.
Obama was leading with liberals and had a modest advantage among white men, a group from which he has seldom received strong backing. Former Sen. John Edwards' decision to leave the race last week may have helped Obama with those voters.
Clinton had a clear lead with white women, with older white and Hispanic voters, and with lower educated people.
About half of Democrats across the country said they want a candidate who will change things. As usual Obama was that group's overwhelming favorite, getting about seven in 10 of their votes. About one-fourth preferred experience, and Clinton was garnering virtually all of their votes.
Half of Democrats also named the economy as the country's top issue. Of that group, Clinton was favored slightly. She also led with those citing health care, while Obama had an advantage with people most concerned about the war in Iraq.
The top issue for Republicans also was the economy, with four in 10 naming it. Those voters favored McCain, as did those citing Iraq and terrorism. Romney's advantage came with the one quarter who said illegal immigration was their No. 1 concern.
But on the economy, the message from GOP voters was mixed. On a separate question, Romney was cited as the candidate most trusted to manage the economy.
McCain, the Arizona senator, and Romney each had the support of nearly four in 10 people calling themselves Republicans. McCain has yet to win that group of voters in any GOP contest this year, though he has tied for the lead among them before. He led among independents — a consistent McCain strength — though Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was not far behind.
McCain had more than a 2-to-1 edge over Romney among GOP moderates. Romney was compensating by getting about half the votes of people calling themselves very conservative, twice the number backing Huckabee. McCain had about one-fifth of those votes.
Those preferring a candidate with strong leadership over agreement on the issues, and looking for experience, were tilting strongly toward McCain. But nearly half of Republicans were looking for a candidate who shares their values. Romney led with that group.
Romney also had four in 10 votes from Republicans who want to deport illegal aliens, for a clear lead over McCain.
Huckabee, who has trailed McCain and Romney overall in recent national polls, had one-third of the votes of white, born-again and evangelical Christians, giving him a slight lead in that category over his rivals.
The preliminary results came from exit polling by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International conducted for The Associated Press and television networks. The partial samples came from more than 400 precincts across 16 states with primaries on Tuesday.
Included were interviews with 10,926 Democratic primary voters and 7,087 GOP voters. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 1 percentage point for Democrats and 2 points for Republicans.