White House hopefuls eye next races
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue battle for Democratic nomination.
Super Tuesday – state by state |
States won by Democratic and Republican candidates, based on projections: Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee (8) Barack Obama: Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah (13) Republican candidates John McCain: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma (9) Mitt Romney: Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah (6) Mike Huckabee: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia (5) |
Clinton won eight states, including California and New York, while Barack Obama won 13 states.
Louisiana and Clinton expected to hold campaign events on Thursday in Virginia.
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On the Republican side, McCain won nine states, including California and New York, according to projections, while his closest rival Mitt Romney could only take six.
McCain now holds 720 delegates out of a total of 1191, while Romney has 256 and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, holds 194, NBC news reported.
As victory in many Republican state contests means that the winner secures all the delegates in that state, McCain has surged ahead of his competitors.
Mike Huckabee, who has been a distant third in the Republican race, took five states in Tuesday’s vote, mainly in the south of the country.
Huckabee split
Huckabee has won support from evangelical Christians, and he split votes with Romney among conservatives unhappy with McCain’s policies.
“We will unite the party behind our conservative principles and move forward to the general election in November,” McCain said in Phoenix, acknowledging conservative doubts about his past views on immigration, tax cuts and other issues.
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Both McCain and Romney are scheduled to address a key conference of conservatives in Washington on Thursday, while Huckabee was
scheduled to speak there on Saturday.
All three of the senators in the presidential race – Obama, Clinton and McCain – returned to Washington on Wednesday to vote on an economic stimulus package in the Senate.
More than half the total delegates to the Democratic convention in August and about 40 per cent of the delegates to the Republican convention in September will be distributed from Tuesday’s vote.
Concerns over falling housing values, rising prices and unstable financial markets were the biggest concerns of voters in both parties and eclipsed the Iraq war as a voting issue, exit polls showed.