The Associated press is now reporting Hillary Clinton leading in the delegate race with 845 delegates to Barack Obama’s 765.
Barack Obama has won the cliffhanger in New Mexico, 49% to 48%, with 92 percent of the vote reported.
The score in Super Tuesday states, Barack Obama, 14, Hillary Clinton, 8.
Obama won Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New Mexico and Utah.
Clinton won Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Analysis: Hillary Clinton continues to win where most of the people live. Clinton won the big states on Super Tuesday. Except for his own state of Illinois, Barack Obama won mostly in small states and caucus states.
Obama has done well in the deep South states, winning last night in Georgia and Alabama, and previously in South Carolina. He probably cannot win those states in the November election against Republican war hero John McCain. Clinton has won in upper-tier Southern states (Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma).
(It will be very interesting to see which one of them can win next Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the northernmost Southern state, Virginia, and the southernmost northern state, Maryland. My gut feeling is that Hillary has the edge in Maryland politics, where Gov. Martin O’Malley has been a vocal Clinton supporter from the start, and in Northern Virginia. Southern and western Virginia, I don’t know.)
Clinton has dominated in the Northeast, winning everything to date except Connecticut, and in California. Obama has demonstrated appeal in the Midwest (Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota), and in the Plains states and Rocky Mountain states. – Bernie Hayden
2 Comments
February 6, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thanks Bernie for the concise update; you are like having a personal reporter.
February 8, 2008 at 10:49 pm
dear bernie, I am from baltimore, md. and it’s all about obama here. One more thing, md is a southern state (i.e. mason-dixson line seperates north from south).