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Democrats - Hillary Clinton won handily in the state where she has served as U.S. Senator for the past six years. She keeps her hold on one of the most important prizes of Super Tuesday. Although she won New York, Obama seemed poised to get a big chunk of New York's 232 Democratic delegates. Clinton was tested by Obama in heavily black neighborhoods in New York City, liberal upstate areas and on college campuses...
...with their big screen maps, the countdown clocks and rolling tallies and vamping pundits as everyone waited for the polls to close and the answers to come, at the end of the beginning of the longest campaign ever. But unlike next November, when the maps and clocks will return, Super Tuesday has its own rules: for the candidates, coming in second actually counts for something, and beating your rival is not enough; you have to beat expectations as well...
...states began to report: he gained more delegates just from New York than he has won in total in all the races to date. He also carried New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois and Oklahoma, finally proving he can win more than 40% of the Republican vote, which going into Super Tuesday he had yet to manage in a party still ambivalent about the road forward...
...Their overseas supporters are expected to vote by postal ballot in their home states. Republicans Abroad U.K. holds fundraisers and social get-togethers such as the first meeting of its Young Republican branch, a staid gathering where some two dozen fresh-faced professionals and students met up, also on Super Tuesday, in a central London bar. One of their number, banker Allison Bruneau, 28, says she's encountered a view among Britons that supporters of President Bush "drive pick-up trucks" and pine for slavery. "One of the things that's really frustrated me is this feeling that...
...tonight, had never cast a vote. Like the hundreds of U.S. citizens still queuing to enter the building and the hundreds more already inside, Lewis has been lured by the chance to participate in the Democrats' first-ever Global Primary, a rolling eight-day event that kicked off on Super Tuesday and is designed to allow expatriate Democrats to vote in 33 countries, from the Dominican Republic to Cambodia. The Global Primary also offers them the option of voting by fax or online. The global tally will be announced on Feb. 21, and it will determine the selection...