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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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Nice post of "Hussain", Henry. Are you a Clinton operative? Is this how pro-Clinton voters act? Why don't you throw in a reference to the color of his skin as well?

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:40:54 PM

Jason: Would you please explain your statement regarding "more experience"? I've probably asked at least a thousand people on these blogs and haven't had one answer yet. I also can't seem to find anything from the millions of sources available on the internet to substantiate such a claim either.

Posted by: GC | Feb 14, 2008 7:44:29 PM

Geez the woman won if the shoe was on Obama's foot am sure some on you on here would be doing cartwheels over NM, I have already said it at the rate you obama supporters are going one would think if he does get the nomination that he would not need any of Hillary's supporters votes. Maybe you guys feel he can win the Presidency without that, well if you think so think again, he is going to need every darn vote he can muster, so when you slam us don't come begging when that time comes because some of us may have to think long and hard about where we put our votes.

Posted by: SJ | Feb 14, 2008 7:49:06 PM

Come on Hillary! We need a dishonest Democrat like you in the White House again, just like your husband Bill. Go Hillary! Make sure you keep up the false rhetoric about universal healthcare, even though we know you are so indebted from the huge campaign contributions, to the big insurance and pharma industries and this is all just talk. Go Hillary! We need you to attack Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia to keep your promises to the military/industrial/complex, no matter how many of our soldiers will die. Why should we care? We already know you don't. Go Hillary! At least the major arms manufacturers endorsed you, so we know you'll have wars for them to make them and you more money. Go Hillary!

Posted by: steve | Feb 14, 2008 7:50:03 PM

More time on the planet, in politics and being a policy wonk. She started out as a Watergate lawyer and has firsthand knowledge of how The White House runs and probably knows more policy details than Obama. But you could say the same thing about many others. And she has originated no real significant legislation in her time in The Senate. Being president requires leadership and I see more of that with Obama than Clinton. She doesn't motivate/inspire like him. Put a good team with him and I think he does a better job, even from day 1.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:52:06 PM

Listen you guys from N.M. , I always remember New mexico being last counting. Whats the problem down under. Gov Richarson should fix that system. Even a caveman can do it

Posted by: Charles | Feb 14, 2008 7:52:21 PM

Way to go Hillary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TEXAS HAS YOUR BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Roni | Feb 14, 2008 7:54:19 PM

Way to go Hillary!!! She's the Iron Lady! Hang in there... Texas is Clinton country!

GO HILLARY!!!

Posted by: Steven | Feb 14, 2008 7:57:14 PM

Oh ... I forgot that she received the second highest amount of contributions from the drug industry behind only Rick Santorum. (google it ... there's a NY Times article out there.) Sure she'll fix the health care system. The question is who will benefit. (Disclosure: I'm for universal health care and am a physician.)

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 7:59:52 PM

I'm also a Texan and we'll see how the vote breaks down. I wonder if our Mexican-American population will be swayed by her love of peppers, which she pronounced before the Virginia/Maryland/DC primaries. Maybe she can claim she's from Texas, as she has with NY, Illinois, and Arkansas. I'm waiting for the "I've been a lifelong Cowboys fan" comment.
I suspect she wins Texas with about 55%, maybe a little less. Since the delegates are awarded in an odd way, she probably beats Obama by less than 10 delegates here.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 8:05:09 PM

Actually, It was 1 delegate not 2. I think its pretty sad how you guys get so excited over a delegate. Chances are, Obama will win Wisconsin and Hawii. After campaining in Ohio and Penn, he'll most likely win those too. I don't think by a big margin though. But he'll increase in delegates and win the popular vote. The superdelegates will then flock to his side

Posted by: Vanessa | Feb 14, 2008 8:06:22 PM

He will never be able to win Ohio and Pennsylvania? Isn't that what you guys said about Iowa, and South Carolina, and ... ?
By the way, the best way to see the young people and African-American community desert the election is to steal the election with Florida/Michigan delegates. Or super delegates.
So you're saying you want McCain in office and the US in Iraq for the next 100 years?

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 8:15:45 PM

EVERYTHING IS BIG IN TEXAS YOU KNOW! THAT MEANS HILLARY WILL WIN BIG IN TEXAS, REAL BIG!! TEXANS LOVE WOMEN YOU KNOW AND COWBOY ARE REAL GENTLEMEN! I LOVE IT!! TEXANS MUCHO GRANDE!!!

Posted by: Very Independent | Feb 14, 2008 8:19:09 PM

I am confident, if Mrs. Clinton get the nomination, she will beat John McCain in the Primary for President.
All of the Obama supporters are acting like he already has 2,025 delegates. I am sorry, it is just wishful thinking. Still a very long campaign ahead.
I just read a story that without the Super Delegates neither of them will reach the 2,025 goal. So are the super delegates just supposed to fall behind Mr. Obama? Mrs. Clinton has a lot of friends and constituents in the SD committee, they will never abandon her unless she herself concedes the race.

Posted by: Jordan Clinton | Feb 14, 2008 8:21:18 PM

Maybe we can get a repeat of the 1968 Chicago riots ... all to get Clinton the nomination.
That would be great. Just great.
The numbers for a pledged delegate lead are going to be hard to accumulate for Clinton. Not impossible, but very hard. Assuming Obama wins in Wisconsin and Hawaii (he has the edge right now), Clinton will need a huge win in Texas and a substantial win in Ohio. (Texas gives out delegates based on how many people voted in regions in the past, and the Mexican-American community had low turnout the last 2 election cycles compared with African American districts. Consequently, votes from African American communities are weighed more heavily.)
If this is not a convincing win for Clinton, will she concede or play a Huckabee?

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 8:22:13 PM

Yes ... the superdelegates will fall behind whoever wins the majority of pledged candidates. Does the Democratic party want to do to Obama what happened to Gore in 2000? Imagine the chaos.
Ultimately they want to win the general election and ticking off young/black voters isn't going to get them there.

Posted by: jason | Feb 14, 2008 8:26:11 PM

Hillary is OK,not terrific. But her Bill is definitely not trustworthy. So I hope she doesn't win the Democratic nomination. I would hate to see him that close to the White House again. Obama doesn't have much of anything bad in his record and he has a great deal of positive accomplishments. He definitely knows how to get people whose positions are very different to compromise and work together.

Posted by: Babs | Feb 14, 2008 8:32:26 PM

Neither is ticking off the majority of White, Hispanic, women and over 55 votes.
I am sure the young/black crowd will get over it.
Super delegates do not have to align with anyone because of popular vote. It would be nice in theory, but not feasible.
I bet we will see blood in the streets if they nominate Hillary over Obama,and what does that say for our country.
If our candidate does win, just because we voted for him, we will riot and burn the country down. Is that what our nation is coming to? I though we we more civil than that.

Posted by: Jordan Clinton | Feb 14, 2008 8:33:51 PM

FEMALEVOTER; Right on!

Posted by: irma | Feb 14, 2008 8:50:33 PM

If Hillary doesn't win the Democratic nomination .. it will be an obamanation ... and the Dems will lose to McCain!

Posted by: Jackson | Feb 14, 2008 8:51:23 PM

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