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.
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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 Paul finished [...]

Regarding today’s Oregon Primaries, Barack Obama has been projected the winner by all the major news networks. With 95% of precincts reporting, Obama has a 58.7-41.3% lead over Hillary Clinton, and will take 18 pledged delegates to his opponent’s 12.
Overall on the night, Hillary has closed the pledged delegate gap, but — [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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.

Congressman Ron Paul virtually dropped out of the campaign for the Republican nomination for President of the United States with a video posted to his Web site, but he will continue to travel around the country to encourage grassroots support of his libertarian “revolution” according to the Washington Post. No word on whether or [...]