Obama wins Georgia

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Barack Obama has won the Democratic primary contest in Georgia, according to U.S. television network projections, beating out New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It's the Illinois senator's second win in the south after an earlier victory in South Carolina on Jan. 26, where the black vote propelled his success.
Georgia has 87 Democratic delegates at stake, divided between Clinton and Obama in rough proportion to the votes.
Two dozen contests will deliver 1,681 Democratic delegates, with 2,025 needed to win the nomination. neither Democratic candidate is expected to emerge with a decisive victory when the votes are tallied. Each will send delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer, but neither is expected to have enough to take the nomination.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee clinched the first victory Tuesday, winning West Virginia. The Republican presidential hopeful won 18 delegates in the state caucuses, beating former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in a winner-take-all GOP state convention vote
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