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The2008 Illinois Democratic presidential primary took place onSuper Tuesday, February 5, 2008, with 153 delegates at stake. Each ofIllinois's 19 congressional districts was proportionally allocated to candidates who had received 15% or more of the vote in that district, totaling 100. Another 53 delegates were also proportionally allocated to candidates who had received 15% or more of the vote statewide. The 153 delegates represented Illinois at theDemocratic National Convention inDenver, Colorado. Thirty-two other unpledged delegates, known assuperdelegates, also attended the convention and cast their votes as well.
Polls indicated that then-U.S. SenatorBarack Obama was leading then-U.S. SenatorHillary Clinton by double digits in the days before the contest in his home state of Illinois.[1]
| 2008 Illinois Democratic Presidential Primary Results | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates | ||
| Democratic | Barack Obama | 1,318,234 | 64.66% | 104 | ||
| Democratic | Hillary Clinton | 667,930 | 32.76% | 49 | ||
| Democratic | John Edwards | 39,719 | 1.95% | 0 | ||
| Democratic | Dennis Kucinich | 4,234 | 0.21% | 0 | ||
| Democratic | Joe Biden | 3,788 | 0.19% | 0 | ||
| Democratic | Bill Richardson | 3,538 | 0.17% | 0 | ||
| Democratic | Christopher Dodd | 1,171 | 0.06% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 2,038,614 | 100.00% | 153 | |||
| Voter turnout | % | — | ||||
Chicago Public Radio reported on March 13, 2008, that the delegate counts were recalculated and Obama won 106 delegates to 47 forClinton.[2]
It was no surprise that Barack Obama cruised to a landslide victory in Illinois, the state he had represented in theU.S. Senate since2005. He enjoyed massive support in his state among all demographics. According to exit polls, 57 percent of voters in the Illinois Democratic Primary werewhite and they opted for Obama 57–41; 24 percent of voters wereAfrican American and they, too, backed Obama 93–5; and 17 percent of voters in the primary wereHispanic/Latino and they narrowly backed Obama 50–49. Obama won all age groups but tied Clinton amongsenior citizens aged 65 and over. He won all voters in the state of all educational attainment levels as well as income/socioeconomic classes. He won all ideological groups and voters from both parties as well as self-identifiedIndependents. Regarding religion, Obama won every major denomination exceptRoman Catholics, who narrowly backed Clinton 50-48 percent. Obama wonProtestants by a margin of 58–38, other Christians 79–19, other religions 82–17, andatheists/agnostics 78–21.
Obama performed extremely well statewide and racked up massive victories in his home city ofChicago as well as its suburbs and the metropolitan area. He also won Northern Illinois as well as thecollar counties by substantial victories. Clinton's best performance was in Southern Illinois among the morerural andconservative counties that are majority white, although Obama still won the region as a whole.
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