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Photo Credit: FOX News Senator Hillary Clinton has won more delegates than Senator Barack Obama in the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and caucuses while Senator John McCain won most of the states and delegates of the Republican Super Tuesday primaries. DEMOCRATS Hillary Clinton: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee Barack Obama: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah REPUBLICANS John McCain: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma Mitt Romney: Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah Mike Huckabee: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia STATE BY STATE Alabama: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee Alaska: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Arizona: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Arkansas: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee California: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Colorado: B...

Super Tuesday Primary Polls Delegates Democrats Clinton 230 Obama 152 Needed: 2025 Republicans McCain 97 Romney 74 Huckabee 29 Paul 6 Needed: 1191 Click here for the details of all the polls in all the states .

28 Jan 2008 21:59 Africa/Lagos MySpace & MTV, Along With Associated Press, to Exclusively Feature Frontrunner Republican & Democratic Candidates' 'Closing Arguments' February 2nd Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Mike Huckabee Confirmed for 'Super Dialogue' with Potential to Reach 200 Million Voters on TV, Online, Radio and Mobile Phones Associated Press to Syndicate Event to 1,800 Media Websites, Nearly 600 in States with Super Tuesday Primaries LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- MySpace, the world's most popular social network, and MTV, the leading global youth brand, along with the Associated Press, today announced "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue." The event will offer candidates polling above 10%* a final chance to address the nation -- particularly the energized and pivotal youth voting bloc -- in advance of Super Tuesday, an unprecedented moment in U.S. political history, when more than 20 states...

NEWSWEEK: Cover: 'Our Time for Change has Come' 'This is the campaign I always wanted to run. If it doesn't work, it's not because of the organization we built or the respectful tone that we set,' Sen. Barack Obama Tells Newsweek. Winning in Iowa: 'I think there's no doubt that it's a measure of our progress as a country. I've said from the beginning I had confidence in the American people.' John McCain Says the Lesson of the GOP Iowa Caucus: 'one, you can't buy an election in Iowa, and two, negative campaigns don't work.' NEW YORK, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the Iowa caucuses Sen. Obama tells Newsweek in the January 14 issue "Our Time For Change Has Come" (on newsstands Monday, January 7), "I feel calm," -- 24 hours before he'd know if it had all been worth it, or if he had been wasting his time. "This is the campaign I always wanted to run. If it doesn't work, it's not because o...

4 Jan 2008 14:20 Africa/Lagos First Blood to Barack as European Betting Frenzy Begins DUBLIN, January 4/PRNewswire/ -- Senator Barack Obama has blasted the ball into the back of the net with an emphatic victory in the Iowa Democratic Caucus. While Hillary Clinton remains the Bookies favourite to become next President, the gap is beginning to narrow between the two front runners. European bookmaking firm paddypower.com have slashed the odds on Obama to become Next President from 3/1 to 2/1 while Hillary Clinton has eased in the betting from odds-on 10/11 to odds-against 11/8. All eyes now turn to New Hampshire next Tuesday for the first of the Primaries where Hillary Clinton remains the narrow favourite at odds of 4/5 ahead of Barack Ohama at 10/11 to top the Democratic vote. In the Republican camp Senator John McCain is the man the beat in New Hampshire and has been installed as paddypower.com's red hot 8/11 favourite. Ken Robertson, Communications Manager for paddypower.com...

Presidential front runners, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama IOWA HAS DONE IT AGAIN! Yes. Iowa has goofed again. The Iowa Caucuses have chosen two presidential candidates that even heaven knows will not win the nominations of their respective parties, because neither Barack Obama nor Mike Huckabee has what it takes to win the nominations and none of them will contest in the presidential election on November 4, 2008.. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is still the Democratic Presidential Candidate who will be the flag bearer of the Democratic Party on November 4, 2008.Senator Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards would be swept away by the Tsunami Tuesday primaries on February 5, 2008. Super Tuesday typically represents a Presidential candidate's first test of national electabilityIn 1992, after losing earlier primaries, Democrat Bill Clinton emerged as a candidate "back from the dead" when he convincingly won a number of Southern primaries on Super Tuesday. ...

I asked an American why the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more influential than the former President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush and he said the Second Amendment has made the NRA to be very powerful in America. The NRA is the most powerful lobbying organization in America. The NRA has the support of over 80 million gun owners in America and they can make or break the popularity and electability of any of the presidential candidates. “In each of the last four even-year general elections gun owners have had a massive impact. And the National Rifle Association has proven to everyone that if you want to win the presidency, earning the support of gun owners and Second Amendment defenders might be the deciding factor. The NRA is in a stronger position than ever to influence the 2008 elections.” ~ Kenneth Blackwell of the New York Sun. Many of the American presidential candidates have been courting the NRA for the endorsement of their candidacy, but Chris Cox, the Executi...

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4 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos Clinton, Thompson Win First Presidential 'Primary' Nation's Social Studies Teachers Flex Voting Muscles and Choose '08 Contenders Pearson Sponsors Presidential Primary at National Council for the Social Studies Annual Event SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was the Republicans' top choice wit...