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| Obama wins Va.; Huckabee battles McCain
Obama wins Va.; Huckabee battles McCain 2/12/08 Quote:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia primary Tuesday night and reached out for victories in nearby Maryland and the District of Columbia, determined to erode or even erase Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegate lead in the Democratic presidential race.
Obama's triumph made it six straight over Clinton, the former first lady, now struggling to keep up in a race she once commanded.
The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls.
The interviews with voters showed blacks accounted for nearly one-third of the ballots cast in Virginia, and Obama's share approached 90 percent. He and Clinton split the white vote.
In all, there were 168 delegates at stake in the three Democratic primaries.
Clinton began the night with 1,147 delegates, to 1,124 for Obama. Both are far from the 2,025 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee struggled over 116 delegates in the GOP primaries in the so-called Potomac Primary contests.
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