Senators Hilary Clinton and John McCain are the projected winners of the second biggest delegate count state, New York, according to CNN and the Associated Press.
Clinton won her 'home' state with 57 percent of the vote, 880, 971 supporters in total. She has officially been awarded 20 of the state's 282 delegates thus far. Clinton now has 160 delegates in total.
Obama finished behind her with 608,430 votes, 40 percent of the vote. He has taken 11 delegates so far to bring his total to 109.
Following both Clinton and Obama is Sen. John Edwards, who although he dropped out of the presidental race, has 17,012, 1 percent of the votes in New York.
Tonight in record numbers, you voted not just to make history but to remake America. Sen. Hillary Clinton, after winning New York.
"Tonight in record numbers, you voted not just to make history but to remake America," Clinton said to supporters in New York. "We know the Republicans won't give up the White House without a fight. So let me be clear. I won't let anyone Swift Boat this country's future," Clinton continued, in reference to the negative ads that helped defeat John Kerry in 2004.
The MSNBC exit polls broke down the democratic vote in several ways including race and gender. 49 percent of men in New York voted for Clinton, while 46 percent of men voted for Obama. The gap was more significant in women. 58 percent of women in New York voted for Clinton, while only 36 percent of women voted for Obama.
The exit polls also showed gaps between Clinton and Obama with race. Clinton won the race between white males with 50 percent to Obama's 44 percent. There was also a significant gap with white women. 64 percent of white women voted for Clinton, while only 34 percent voted for Obama.
However, Obama did very well with the black men, getting 69 percent of their vote nationwide to Clinton's 26 percent. Obama also won the black female vote with 57 percent to Clinton's 43 percent.
Despite the Kennedy's endorsement, Hispanic's overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. She received 71 percent of the Hispanic male vote to Obama's 28 percent and 76 percent of the female vote to Obama's 24 percent.
"Senator Clinton, I think, has to be the prohibitive favorite going in given her name recognition, but we've been steadily chipping away," said Obama before the results of California were revealed, attempting to downplay expectations.
Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain picked up all 101 of the state's Republican delegates in the winner-take-all race. These 101 delegates bring McCain's total to 291 delegates."The one way you can't win a race is to quit it, and until somebody beats me, I'm going to answer the bell for every round of this fight," said Huckabee indicating that he will not drop out.
Following Romney are Gov. Mike Huckabee with 11 percent, Ron Paul with seven percent and Mayor Giulilani, who dropped out of the race with three percent.
The exit polls show that McCain received 47 percent of the male vote in New York, followed by Romney with 31 percent, Huckabee with 12 percent, Paul with 7 percent and Giuliani with 2 percent of the male vote. McCain also received 47 percent of the female vote in New York. Romney now has 38 percent, Huckabee 8 percent, Giuliani 4 percent and Paul 3 percent.







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Kelly commented, on February 6, 2008 at 5:24 p.m.:
Accurate reporting. Well done.