Barack Obama is for all intents and purposes the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. NYTimes.com has the numbers as 56% to 39% with 9% reporting as of 10:52pm ET… and as reported earlier, he’s passed the delegate threshold needed to go up against Republican John McCain in November. UPDATE (6/5/08): Here are [...]

Hillary Clinton has won the South Dakota Primaries, with the NY Times having the totals as follows (updated 6/4/08 with 100% reporting): Hillary Clinton: 54,179 votes, 55.3%, 8 delegates won Barack Obama: 43,726 votes, 44.7%, 7 delegates won With the same % reporting, John McCain wins the GOP contest with 70.1% of the vote (Ron [...]

We’ll have an update once SD and MT’s results are in, but unless something extraordinary happens between now and the conventions, it’s as close to official as you can get: Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are the two major party candidates in the race to be 44th President of the United States… [...]

According to the Associated Press, Illinois Senator Barack Obama “effectively clinched” the Democratic Presidential nomination today, based on a tally of pledged delegates, superdelegates and the minimum number of delegates he will add to his total today even if he loses both Montana and South Dakota Primaries. Here are the first few paragraphs of this [...]

Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rican Primaries (results at NYTimes.com, 263,120 (68.4%) to Barack Obama’s 121,458 (31.6%) with 55 pledged delegates up for grabs (to be proportionally allocated). The final two contests are Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota!

Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated with half-votes at the Democratic National Convention this summer. Of course, people are still unhappy. Duh. The Associated Press has the full story.

Hillary Clinton has won the Kentucky Primaries, beating Barack Obama 65% to 30% with 100% of precincts reporting. Hillary secured 459,145 votes to Barack’s 209,771, and won more delegates, 37-14. On the Republican side, John McCain got 72% of the vote to earn all 42 of KY’s pledged delegates, with Ron Paul getting 7% and [...]

It’s just after 8pm ET and all of the news networks and that Associated Press are calling the West Virginia Primaries for Senator Hillary Clinton, who is reportedly beating Senator Barack Obama 2:1 based on exit polling. We’ll have final numbers here, including how the 28 elected delegates split up, when they are available. On [...]

Hillary Clinton won a close one in Indiana, 51% to Barack Obama’s 49%… Meanwhile, Obama got a big win in North Carolina, 56% to Clinton’s 42%, according to NYTimes.com… On the already-decided GOP side, John McCain swept the night.

Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Primaries by 9.2%, 54.6 to 45.4, winning in delegates 74 to 67. With delegates to be determined, John McCain won in PA with 72.8% of the vote to 15.9 for Ron Paul and 11.3 for Mike Huckabee. The latest delegate totals (2,025 are needed to clinch the [...]