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Hillary Clinton Wins New Mexico Primary

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February 14, 2008 6:24 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: New Mexico's Democratic party chairman announced Thursday that Hillary Clinton has won the state's party-run primary, which was held on Super Tuesday. 

The New Mexico win adds one more delegate to her total.

Prior to today's announcement, ABC had allocated 13 delegates from New Mexico to Hillary Clinton and 12 delegates to Barack Obama and was waiting for the outcome of the provisional ballots before allocating the final delegate.

After today's announcement, ABC's Decision Desk has allocated 14 delegates to Hillary Clinton while keeping Barack Obama at 12 delegates.

Following today's New Mexico outcome, ABC's overall Democratic delegate race shows Obama leading with 1293 delegates, and Clinton close behind with 1226. 

Following the February 5th primary, Clinton and Obama were separated by roughly 1,000 votes in New Mexico.

Since February 5th, the New Mexico Democratic Party has been checking the validity of the 17,200 provisional ballots which were cast. 

The party had to ensure that the provisional ballot was cast by a registered Democrat (the primary was not open to Republicans or independents) and the party had to ensure that the person had not voted more than once.

Taking into account the results from New Mexico, Clinton ends up with victories in 10 out of the 23 contests held on Super Tuesday, including nine states and American Samoa. Obama won the remaining 13 state contests.

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I THOUGHT SHE SAID CAUCUSSES DIDNT MATTER! NOW THEY MATTER?? SHE IS SO FUL OF IT!!!

Posted by: James | Feb 14, 2008 6:38:33 PM

Keep it going Hillary.. You'll make a Great President.. Pick a good running mate, and clean up the mess that the Republican's made of our Country, and get us back to number one in the World..

GO HILLARY !! OUR NEXT PRESIDENT !!!

Posted by: J.Murphy, CA. | Feb 14, 2008 6:42:51 PM

What did they do with the 3 boxes of votes the election officials took home overnight?

Posted by: James | Feb 14, 2008 6:43:52 PM

James, in the last article I read, all the ballet boxes were accounted for . Are you implying Hillary won by fraud in New Mexico?

Posted by: Jordan Clinton | Feb 14, 2008 6:46:36 PM

Wow, she must be losing badly if you guys are getting so excited about one (1) delegate!!!

Keep up the pipe dreams! We sure don't need the Clinton's back in the White House, even with Hillary on top!

Posted by: Jackt51 | Feb 14, 2008 6:49:18 PM

Jackt 51. To be honest it was 2 delegates..lol Twice as exciting.
Mr. Obama will never make it to the white house.
I bet if Obama won by a couple of thousand votes, all of you would be delirious...

Posted by: Jordan Clinton | Feb 14, 2008 6:52:00 PM

This was expected. Why did they take so long to count these votes. The only surprising thing here is that Clinton just barely won considering that this state has a substantial latino vote.

Posted by: Vixen2oo8 | Feb 14, 2008 7:01:16 PM

See Obamacons, counting votes does matter! Wait till they count the votes in Florida and Michigan.

Go HIllary!

Posted by: s.b. | Feb 14, 2008 7:01:50 PM

Why is it no matter what state Hillary wins, you always say Barely won? Mr. Obama wins Missouri by 1 % and they received the same # of delegates and Mr. Obama beat her good in Missouri.
Remember this was a caucus. Mr. Obama by all rights, should have won New Mexico no matter what.

Posted by: Jordan Clinton | Feb 14, 2008 7:04:08 PM

This might stop all the momentum talk. Soon Edwards will endorse HRC this will blow that Obama (empty Suite) away to Kenya.

Posted by: Charles | Feb 14, 2008 7:05:57 PM

Even with that narrow victory, she still lost 8 straight....

perhaps I'm missing something here, huh?

Posted by: tony | Feb 14, 2008 7:08:40 PM

Maybe at the end they could count votes in Mexico, Switzerland and Costa Rica if Hillary is behind. We can keep changing the rules until we trump the will of the people. Oh wait. That's what the superdelegates are for. Maybe that will win Clinton the nomination. And if were African American I'd then either sit at home or vote for McCain.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:10:46 PM

Hillary's "Sollutions" are watered down copies of Obama's plans on his website.

Hillary's Wet and watered down muck of real change.

Posted by: PollCat | Feb 14, 2008 7:13:46 PM

hey can we get behind both or do we just keep knocking each other around this can go up or down I am for Hillary but if you all could calm down maybe we could agree to vote for either one yes I would like Hillary on the top but it would be ok if Obama is as long as we are all in this together its bad enough our leaders are at it we sound like rep against the dem and that is not unity

Posted by: Bishop | Feb 14, 2008 7:18:10 PM

Jordan Clinton wrote:
"Remember this was a caucus. Mr. Obama by all rights, should have won New Mexico no matter what."
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New Mexico was a caucus in name only. It was a de facto primary where the State Democratic Party had voting locations throughout the State (although not enough locations- with 3 hour waits to cast a simple vote on a secret ballot- 1,900 people in line to vote at one time) and the "polls" were only open from 12 noon through 7 p.m and several precincts ran out of ballots. The State party claims that they never saw the record turnout coming: lessons learned.

Posted by: Ken in New Mexico | Feb 14, 2008 7:19:09 PM

Too bad she has such high negatives. She keeps on saying that Obama won't be able to handle the sleaze that the RNC will throw at him in the general election. Will it be any worse than what The Clinton team does? They're no choirboys/girls, either.
I think she risks losing the general election more than Obama and won't vote for her because of that. I'd rather have a better chance with Obama and less experience than have more experience and a higher risk of losing. Hillary is a policy person, but as Huckabee said (I'm paraphrasing and someone else wrote this) "I don't want someone who's going to fix the carburetor ... I want someone who's going to drive the car." He'll be a better driver anyway.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:21:18 PM

Yay!! I'm so impressed that she keeps on running, in spite of the fact that the media is out to get her, as well as the Obama supporters. And the Republicans won't be able to do it either. She's a strong woman and one I'll be happy to see as Madam President!

Posted by: FemaleVoter | Feb 14, 2008 7:22:20 PM

Why is everyone out to get her, even Democrats? And if so, is this the person you want running against a Republican? Right time for a woman president, wrong one for the job. Too much baggage.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:28:54 PM

Who are these Independent voters? The majority of Democrats (actually nearly 2/3 of Democrats) vote for Hillary Clinton over Barrack Hussein Obama. However, the Independent voters change all that. Why are we allowing Independent voters vote in Democrat's Primary. These Independent voters could be Republicans behind the scene trying to mess up the Democrats. Obviously, those who signed up as Democrats are heavily leaning towards Hillary Clinton (please check and keep checking national polls regarding registered Democrats). The Independent voters are really taking away what true Democrats want. The Independent voters should be allowed to vote only their own Independent Primary. If Democrats are allowed to vote in Republican's Primary, what do you think the Democrats will do?

Posted by: Henry | Feb 14, 2008 7:34:59 PM

As I said ... look at the negatives. Any of the three (Obama, Clinton *or* McCain) is a huge upgrade over what we have, but the best chance the Democrats have is with Obama. He'll get the vote out better and in the long run will recruit more young people into the party. Clinton is old guard. If you want a lower chance of winning this year, vote for her. If you want to build the party over the long run and have a better chance of winning, you choose Obama.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:38:39 PM

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