Atlanta, GA 2/7/2008 5:24:45 AM
News / Politics

Democratic Candidates Just Decimals Apart in Super Tuesday Results

An update on the results from Super Tuesday were released on Wednesday, with the two leading Democratic candidates neck-in-neck in the popular vote.

Of all the votes cast on Super Tuesday for Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama nationwide, the two candidates are only separated by 0.4 of a percentage point.

By midday Wednesday, 14,645,638 votes were reported cast for either Obama or Clinton on Tuesday. Clinton had won 7,295,400 of those votes (50.2 percent) while Obama captured 7,295,400 votes (49.8 percent).

Most precincts had reported 100 percent of their votes by Wednesday, though some districts had yet to complete their count. Many of those votes are in in New Mexico and in California.

As far as delegate votes from Super Tuesday, Obama has one less (539) than Clinton, who took 540. There were 1,681 Democratic delegates at stake in the primaries and conventions in 22 states and U.S. territories.

According to CNN, the overall count showed Clinton leading at this point in delegates with 783 to Obama's 709. They'll need 2,025 to secure their party's nomination.

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