Oklahoma: Clinton, McCain win
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - February 5, 2008 McCain, the Arizona senator, had about 38 percent of the vote
with 86 percent of precincts reporting. Former governor of Arkansas
Mike Huckabee had 33 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney had 24.
Clinton, a New York senator, had been heavily favored in
Oklahoma over Obama, the Illinois senator who did not campaign in
the state in the weeks leading up to the election. She received 55
percent of the vote to 30 percent for Obama with 86 percent of
precincts reporting.
The Associated Press called the race based on surveys of voters
made at polls.
Moderates, older voters and families with incomes of $50,000 or
less a year helped Clinton carry the state, according to data from
exit polls conducted for The Associated Press. McCain had key
support from moderate voters, while Huckabee was strong among
conservative voters.
The only suspense in the Democratic race was whether John
Edwards would meet the 15 percent threshold to collect any
delegates in the state's five congressional districts. He had
almost 11 percent with 86 percent of precincts reporting.
Edwards, who finished a close second to retired Gen. Wesley
Clark in the 2004 Democratic contest, visited the state several
times before suspending his campaign.
While registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in Oklahoma,
the conservative state has not supported a Democrat for president
in a general election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. The state has
approximately 1 million registered Democrats and 800,000
Republicans.