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Stunner! Clinton wins Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island
Staff Reporter | Posted March 4, 2008 11:32 PMShortly after 1 in the morning, CNN projected that Clinton would carry the primary vote in Texas but the race was still undecided for the caucuses held on Tuesday. The win in Texas gives her campaign a huge victory against recent expectations that Obama might pull out an upset against her.
The polls closed in Ohio earlier in the night, but votes in some precincts were not expected to be counted until early Wednesday morning. Nevertheless, NBC made its projection for Clinton at 10:54 Tuesday evening. Exit polls in that state show that Clinton appeared to be holding onto her base, especially with white women.
In an email message sent to supporters after her victory, Clinton called the win "a pretty incredible feeling" and said that her campaign now has the momentum in the Democratic race. "Some people were ready to count us out. But you and I proved them wrong, just as we have every time they tried to declare this race over prematurely. And we're going to keep showing them exactly what we can do," the email message said.
With all the back-and-forth momentum, Democratic voters have yet to decide which candidate will represent them against John McCain in the fall. In Vermont, for example, a state with a history of supporting progressive candidates, Obama did impressively well among Clinton's base in that state, according to exit polls. More than two-thirds of women and roughly 60 percent of senior citizens voted for Obama, according to CNN's Bill Schneider.
Schneider said that voters were influenced by Obama's early opposition to the Iraq war, which Vermont voters said was nearly as important as the economy. In Ohio and Texas, Democrats overwhelmingly chose the economy as their biggest concern, followed by Iraq and health care.
The economy was also the biggest concern for Republican voters in Ohio and Texas, Schneider reported.
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