Obama bests Clinton
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- January
- 16
The results of the Michigan primary show Hillary Rodham Clinton doing poorly among African Americans.
According to “CNN”:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/16/potentially-troubling-news-for-clinton-in-michigan-win-2/ exit polls, 70 percent of the state’s African-American voters choose “uncommittedâ€? over Clinton. They overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama, whose name was not on the ballot.
Had his name been on the ballot, CNN reports, he would have gotten 73 percent of the African-American vote to 22 percent for Clinton.
(The national Democratic party punished Michigan for its early primary by stripping it of its delegates; Clinton left her name on the ballot, but Obama and John Edwards removed theirs.)
PHOTO: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas last night. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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