With two-thirds of precincts counted in Virginia....
451,086 total Democratic votes
223,601 total Republican votes
The swollen Democratic primary ranks in Virginia's open primary appear to have provided a huge boost to Barack Obama in his easy victory over Hillary Clinton. Voters don't register by party in Virginia and are free to vote in either party's primary. And exit polling showed Obama was winning 66 percent to 33 percent among independents, who made up a fifth of the Democratic electorate in Virginia. He did even better
— 70 percent to 26 percent — among Republicans, who made up nearly a tenth of respondents who voted in the Democratic primary.![[RSS]](http://67.192.49.194/templates/images/rss_icon.gif){kind=icon}
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