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Obama Wins Georgia in Night's 1st Prize
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 Obama Wins Georgia in Night's 1st Prize
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is projected to easily defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Georgia, the first of 21 Democratic Super Tuesday contests to be decided, capitalizing on large margins among young and African-American voters.Democrats from one end of the country to the other went to the polls on Tuesday in a virtual national primary to help decide Mr. Obama of Illinois or Mrs. Clinton of New York will represent the party in the November election.At stake were nearly 1,700 Democratic delegates of the 2.025 needed to secure the nomination. But because of closely divided electorate and the party’s complex delegate allocation rules, neither candidate was likely to emerge from the day with a commanding lead in delegates.
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Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is projected to easily defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Georgia, the first of 21 Democratic Super Tuesday contests to be decided, capitalizing on large margins among young and African-American voters.Democrats from one end of the country to the other went to the polls on Tuesday in a virtual national primary to help decide Mr. Obama of Illinois or Mrs. Clinton of New York will represent the party in the November election.At stake were nearly 1,700 Democratic delegates of the 2.025 needed to secure the nomination. But because of closely divided electorate and the party’s complex delegate allocation rules, neither candidate was likely to emerge from the day with a commanding lead in delegates.In the Republican race in Georgia, Senator John McCain of Arizona, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and former Gov. Mike Huckabee were locked in a three-way battle that was too close at this hour.Exit polls in Georgia showed Mr. Obama won large percentages of both men and women voters and a majority of all voters under the age of 60. He also won among all income groups and among union members. Mrs. Clinton took a majority of white women and those who had a strongly favorable opinion of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.Exit polls from around the country showed that Democrats were united in their hunger for change in Washington and concern about the national economy, but divided along lines of race, gender, ethnicity and age.According to data collected from voters by Edison/Mitofsky for the National Election Pool, the number of voters who cited the economy as the most important problem facing the nation was nearly equal to those who cited the war in Iraq and health care combined.Nine out of 10 Democratic voters said the condition of the nation’s economy is either not so good or poor.When asked which candidate quality mattered most in deciding their vote, being able to bring about needed change was by far the most important quality for Democrats in most states, beating “experience” by roughly 2 to 1 in most states. Only one in ten voters said electability - the ability to beat the eventual Republican nominee - as the most important candidate quality.Senator Clinton scored higher as a potential commander in chief than Senator Obama in every state surveyed except Georgia and Mr. Obama’s home state of Illinois.But when asked which candidate would be most likely to unite the country, voters in every state but Tennessee selected Mr. Obama over Mrs. Clinton.Both Democratic camps predicted that the voting in 21 primaries and caucuses would produce a split result in states and delegates won.Mr. Obama, seeking to dampen expectations, said that Mrs. Clinton was the front-runner at the start of Tuesday’s contests and that was unlikely to change. “Senator Clinton, I think, has to be the prohibitive favorite going in given her name recognition, but we’ve been steadily chipping away,” he said.Mrs. Clinton, speaking briefly as she cast her vote in Chappaqua, N.Y., stated the obvious: “The stakes are huge.” Earlier Tuesday afternoon, West Virginia, which was the first to release its votes, favored Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor. At a hard-fought Republican state nominating convention, Mr. Huckabee won 18 of the 30 national delegate slots that were up for grabs, with the remaining 12 to be decided in May.“Other candidates have had bigger budgets,” Mr. Huckabee said in a victory speech at the Charleston Civic Center on Tuesday afternoon. “But you know what? I’m almost tied in delegates with those who have spent 10, 15, 20 times what I have. And it kind of tells me something — that it’s time for the people to elect a president, and not just the national media and the pundits.”As the voting began across the country, in a virtual national primary with 24 state contests, the candidates used their final day to hold last-minute rallies, cast their own votes, and take jabs at one another on morning talk shows. Many of the candidates — including Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton and Senator John McCain — focused on the delegate-rich Northeast, where polls in recent days have shown races tightening on the Democratic side.Among Republicans, the dynamics of the race seemed far different, with Mr. Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, fighting to win enough delegates to remain in the race, while Mr. McCain hoped to continue a spate of recent victories and seal the nomination. Still, Mr. McCain was facing strong opposition from conservative leaders like James Dobson and Rush Limbaugh, both of whom had harsh words for Mr. McCain on Tuesday. In Chappaqua, the wealthy New York suburb that became Mrs. Clinton’s adopted hometown, former President Bill Clinton, Mrs. Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, started their mornings by voting at the Grafflin Elementary School, where they were greeted by 30 or so supporters.“I just want to confirm that you’re a Democrat, right?” one of the election workers, Evan Norris asked her.
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