Hillary menang delegates sementara Obama lebih unggul menyebar di
negara bagian.

Keduanya tidak memberikan speech kemenangan dan keduanya berkampanye
tidak saling menjelekkan lagi.  Mereka sadar, tidak boleh membuat
kesalahan karena pertarungan ini diperkirakan akan sampai pada bulan
Agustus di Denver.

Ternyata, endorsement dari keluarga Kennedy tidak berpengaruh, Hillary
menang di Massachusets dan California.  Obama juga membuat kejutan
dengan menang di banyak negara "kulit putih" (Missouri, Connecticut).

Keuntungannya, Obama duitnya masih lebih banyak dari Hillary. Sehingga
masih bisa kampanye untuk membayar media, ibaratnya napas Obama masih
lebih panjang daripada Hillary.



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First round goes to Obama
Agence France Presse
Jakarta.


United States Democratic Party voters in Indonesia, where Barack Obama
spent part of his childhood, handed him a win over Hillary Clinton in
the first voting abroad on "Super Tuesday," party officials said.

Seventy-five percent of nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans
just past midnight (1700 GMT Monday) went to Obama and 25 percent went
to Clinton, Democrats Abroad officials here said.

Results still need formal verification.  Registered Democrats in
Indonesia's capital Jakarta were the first to vote in person on the
day of the U.S. mega-primary, which will select more than half the
delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August.

The convention will in turn choose the party's presidential candidate
in the race for the White House.  Democrats are voting Tuesday
in 21 states across the United States as well as American Samoa.

Voting for Democrats living overseas has now also begun and will last
until Feb. 12. They will send 22 delegates to the convention
at which they will have a combined 11 votes.

Arian Ardie, the chairman of Democrats Abroad's Indonesia committee,
said Democratic officials here tried to create a buzz similar to that
surrounding the New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch.

The midnight vote in that state's primary on Jan. 8 was keenly watched
by both campaigns and media alike despite its tiny size.

Only 17 people voted this year in Dixville Notch — 10 in the
Democratic primary and seven in the Republican primary.  "It was
really our idea in order to perhaps differentiate ourselves
from the other voting centers," Ardie said, referring to the decision
to open voting at midnight.

Obama moved to Indonesia when he was six after his divorced mother
remarried an Indonesian foreign student.  "It was very powerful. I had
an Indonesian stepfather. I went to an Indonesian-speaking school,"
the Illinois senator has said of his time in the world's most populous
Muslim nation.

"It gave me an enormous appreciation for the magnificent culture
and history of Asia. It gave me a great love for the people of Asia,"
he said.

The Republican Party, which will hold Super Tuesday primaries in 21
states, does not elect convention delegates from overseas.



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