Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Clinton wins most delegates in West Virginia primary, but still trails Obama overall

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won most of the delegates in West Virginia's Democratic primary Tuesday.

Clinton added 20 delegates and Sen. Barack Obama won eight, according to an analysis of election returns by The Associated Press. All of West Virginia's delegates have been allocated.

Tuesday's primary left Obama with a 166.5-delegate lead in the race for the Democratic nomination. He has 1,883.5 delegates, including endorsements from party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton has 1,717, according to the latest AP tally.

The number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination increased by one Tuesday, to 2,026, with the election …

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