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A Virtual Tie: Clinton, Obama Divide the Democratic Primary Vote
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 13, 2008 10:45am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Thursday, March 13, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama approach the ides of March, they are virtually tied in the Democratic primary vote count. Include results from the unsanctioned contests in Florida and Michigan and Clinton leads by less than 80,000 votes out of almost 30 million Democratic primary ballots cast. Exclude these unsanctioned results and Obama is ahead by more than a half million votes, a lead which grows if caucus votes are added to the mix.
Boosted by record Democratic turnouts this year, each candidate has already won more primary votes than any other presidential nominee in the nation's history. In the sanctioned primaries alone, the individual vote total for each has surpassed 12 million. That is higher than the number received by the previous high primary vote-getter, George W. Bush, in the entire 2000 Republican primary season.
Yet one of the most striking features of this year's Democratic dead heat is the feast or famine nature of the competition between Clinton and Obama. Few individual primary contests between the two have actually been that close. Most have been decided by landslide margins for one candidate or the other.
Take the primary voting on March 4. Clinton swept Rhode Island by 18 percentage points and Ohio by 10, while Obama romped to victory in Vermont by 21 points. Only Texas proved competitive, with Clinton winning, 51-to-47 percent. |
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