2008 Delaware Democratic presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2008 Delaware Democratic presidential primary Delaware presidential no 2004 Delaware Democratic presidential primary 2004 2016 Delaware Democratic presidential primary 2016 2008 02 05 File:Barack Obama Senate portrait crop.jpg 150x150px Barack Obama 800080 Illinois 51,148 53.07% 9 File:Hillary_Rodham_Clinton-cropped.jpg Hillary Clinton D4AA00 New York 40,760 42.29% 6 110px County results 110px State house district results Obama: #e1bbe1 40–50% #cf94cf 50–60% #bd6fbd 60–70% #a949a9 70–80% #863886 80–90%Clinton: #fce0b4 40–50% #f1c98b 50–60% 23 Democratic National Convention delegates (15 pledged, 8 unpledged)The number of pledged delegates received is determined by the popular vote CT GA The 2008 Delaware Democratic presidential primary was held on Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008, and had a total of 15 delegates at stake.A Super Guide for Super Tuesday http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/02/supertuesday.guide/index.html#1 CNN 2008-02-02 2008-02-02 The winner in each of Delaware's subdivisions was awarded those subdivisions' delegates, totaling 10. Another five delegates were awarded to the statewide winner, Barack Obama. The 15 delegates represented Delaware at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Eight other unpledged delegates, known as superdelegates, also attended the convention and cast their votes as well. Polls Statewide opinion polling for the 2008 Super Tuesday Democratic Party presidential primaries#Delaware Results Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries Delaware Democratic Presidential Primary Results – 2008 PartyCandidateVotesPercentageDelegates Democratic Barack Obama 51,148 53.07% 9 Democratic Hillary Clinton 40,760 42.29% 6 Democratic Joe Biden 2,863 2.97% 0 Democratic John Edwards 1,241 1.29% 0 Democratic Dennis Kucinich 192 0.20% 0 Democratic Christopher Dodd 170 0.18% 0 - Totals 96,374 100.00% 15 Voter turnout % — Analysis May 2016 Barack Obama's win in the Delaware Democratic Primary can be traced to a number of factors. According to the exit polls, 64 percent of voters in the Delaware Democratic Primary were Caucasian and they favored Clinton by a margin of 56-40 compared to the 28 percent of African American voters who backed Obama by a margin of 86-9. Obama won all age groups except senior citizens ages 65 and over who strongly backed Clinton by a margin of 56-38. Obama also won middle class and more affluent voters making over $30,000 while Clinton won lower middle class and less affluent voters making less than $30,000. Obama also won higher-educated voters (college graduates 60-35; postgraduate studies 66-32) while high school graduates backed Clinton 51-44; both candidates evenly split voters who had some college and/or an associate degree 47-47. Registered Democrats favored Obama 54-42 while Independents also backed him by a margin of 50-44; he also won all ideological groups. Regarding religion, Obama won all major denominations except Roman Catholics who backed Clinton with a 60-35 margin – Obama won Protestants 51-47, other Christians 71-24, and atheists/agnostics 60-35. Obama performed best in New Castle County, the most populous and urban part of the state which contains Wilmington as well as a large population of African Americans, which he won by a 56.49-39.69 margin of victory. He also narrowly won neighboring Kent County to the south, which contains the state capital of Dover, with 51.76 percent of the vote. Clinton won Sussex County in Southern Delaware, the more rural and conservative part of the state, with 52.73 percent of the vote. See also 2008 Delaware Republican presidential primary References Category:2008 United States Democratic presidential primaries by state or territory Democratic primary 2008 Category:2008 Super Tuesday