Net Results

In the most expected results tonight, it looks like Barack Obama and John McCain are cruising to easy wins in the District of Columbia's primary.

With nearly half of precincts reporting, Obama had 76 percent of the D.C. vote to 23 percent for Hillary Rodham Clinton. McCain had 67 percent to 17 percent for Mike Huckabee.

Republicans make up just a tiny portion of the electorate in the black-majority, Democratic-dominated federal city, and D.C. has relatively small constituencies of conservative religious evangelicals and working-class blue-collar voters who have been sustaining the campaign effort of Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister with a populist political message. So D.C. was tailored made for McCain, who in many other states is still striving to set aside conservative voters' doubts about his "maverick" persona.

Obama's dominance among black voters as he bids to become the nation's first black president alone would have earned him an easy victory in D.C., where blacks make up nearly two-thirds of the population.