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Barack Obama Takes Final Contest in Montana, is Presumptive Nominee

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:58:00 +0000

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 the final results in MT…

Barack Obama – 102,373 votes, 56.4%, 9 delegates
Hillary Clinton – 74,792 votes, 41.2%, 7 delegates
Others – 4,258 votes, 2.3%

Oh, and if you were wondering, John McCain won the Republican Primaries in New Mexico. With 99% of the precincts reporting, McCain got 94,419 votes (86%) to Ron Paul’s 15,379 (14%). There’s one more left on that side: July 12 in Nebraska.

Hillary Clinton Wins South Dakota, Hasn’t Quit Yet

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:56:04 +0000

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 in second with 16.6%).

In her speech in NYC, she declined to say what her next steps were or to congratulate Obama on “winning” although did say nice things about him.

Barack Obama Wins in Oregon

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:41:12 +0000

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 — without counting Michigan and Florida — Obama has “clinched” the majority of elected delegates (as of 11:30pm ET, 1636 out of 3253, according to CNN, or 50.3%), although several superdelegates are still in play and there are no signs Clinton will be dropping out before the rest of the contests take place (June 1 in Puerto Rico and June 3 in Montana and South Dakota).

Over on the GOP side, with 95% in, John McCain — the presumptive Republican nominee — is leading Ron Paul 85-15%. Remaining Republican contests include May 27 in Idaho, June 3 in New Mexico and South Dakota and July 12 in Nebraska.

UPDATED as of 5/21, 4pm ET

Hillary Clinton Wins in Kentucky

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:47:00 +0000

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 other candidates who already dropped out garnering 15%.

Hillary Clinton Wins in West Virginia

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:14:54 +0000

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 the GOP side, results are still pending as 27 delegates are up for grabs (in addition to the 18 delegates won by Mike Huckabee at the February 5 Republican Caucuses) in the race already presumptively won by John McCain, despite Ron Paul still officially a candidate.

UPDATE (5/14): With 100% of precincts reporting, here are the final numbers, according to CBSNews.com…

Democratic Primary
Hillary Clinton: 67% — 239,298 votes — 20 delegates
Barack Obama: 26% — 91,747 votes — 8 delegates

Republican Primary
John McCain: 76% — 89,782 votes — 9 delegates
Ron Paul: 5% — 5,918 votes — 0 delegates
Others that already dropped out: 17%

Next up:

May 17 – Hawaii (R)
May 20 – Kentucky & Oregon
May 27 – Idaho (R)
June 1 – Puerto Rico (D)
June 3 – Montana (D), New Mexico (R) and South Dakota
July 12 – Nebraska (R)

Barack Takes North Carolina Big; Hillary Wins Tight Race in Indiana

Matthew Michaels — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:25 +0000

Here are the results of last night’s two big Democratic races (according to numbers reported at NYTimes.com), with all votes counted…

INDIANA
Hillary Clinton (50.9%, 638,274 votes)
Barack Obama (49.1%, 615,862)

NORTH CAROLINA
Hillary Clinton (41.7%, 657,920 votes)
Barack Obama (56.2%, 890,695)

In the Republican Primaries, presumptive nominee John McCain won in Indiana with 77.6% of the vote, over Mike Huckabee (10.0), Ron Paul (7.7) and Mitt Romney (4.8), and in North Carolina with 73.5% over Huckabee (12.1), Paul (7.8) and others (6.5).

Next up in the Democratic race: West Virginia (May 13), Kentucky & Oregon (May 20), Puerto Rico (June 1) and Montana & South Dakota (June 3).

Ron Paul Winds Down Campaign

Matthew Michaels — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:12:00 +0000

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 not he will officially endorse expected Republican nominee John McCain, but he has said in the past that he will remain in the Republican party — he is also currently running to retain his seat in the House of Representatives — rather than run for President on the Libertarian Party or other third party ticket.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_vVaZxTno[/youtube]

According to the latest Associated Press tally, Dr. Paul has won 14 delegates during the nomination process to date.