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After the single biggest day of voting in primary history here is how the race stands:

Total Democratic Delegate Count:

Clinton: 1012

Obama: 933

Total GOP Delegate Count:

McCain: 697

Romney: 244

Huckabee: 187

At the end of voting last night Obama won 13 states and Clinton won 8. Obama tended to win deep southern states with large black populations as well as Midwestern states, while Clinton won heavily populated states states, especially ones in the Northeast, as well as states with large hispanic populations. (Exit polls here will give you an indication of these trends.)

For the other side, McCain won 9, Romney won 7, and Huckabee won 5. Put simply, Romney won midwestern states, Huck won southern states, while McCain won the most states and the biggest states.

The Democratic nominee needs 2025 delegates to take the nomination, while the GOP nominee requires 1191. As you can see things are very close on the Democratic side after the big night with Clinton holding on to a 68 delegate lead by virtue of nothing more than 83 more super-delegates (Frank wrote an lucid post explaining the Democratic super-delegates here) she has than Obama. This race is anything but over as there are many more delegates to be had.

The Repulican race is not nearly as close. To the contrary, with Huckabee winning some southern states and Romney performing below what was needed of him, John McCain continues to pull way out in front in the race for the nomination.

In the next week look to big primaries including Washington and Louisiana on Saturday and Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday.

UPDATE: My sources for the above delegate projections are CBS, AP, Washington Post, and RealClearPolitics. Note that numbers are constantly changing and that projections differ according to source. For instance, NBC News has Obama out in front of the delegate count by a very small margin as of Wednesday night. Hence, we dont really know the exact counts at this point. All that we do know is that the Dem race is effectively tied at this point.

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