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- Held: May 6, 2008
- Polls open: 6:30am to 7:30pm EST
- An estimated 488,000 North Carolinians voted early or absentee
- North Carolina primary among the last to be held
- Indiana primary held on the same day
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Major TV networks called the North Carolina primary for Barack Obama soon after the polls closed. The contest was held on May 6, 2008.
The North Carolina primary is among the last primaries to be held, and is seen as particularly important, given the extended primary fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Pollsters were predicting that in the Democratic contest, Obama would win by around 7%.
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Delegates Up for Grabs
134 Democratic delegates are at stake in the North Carolina primary, and 69 Republican delegates are up for grabs. In 2007, North Carolina was awarded 24 additional delegates for not moving its nominating contest up from May to February.After North Carolina and Indiana, only six Democratic contests will remain: West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.
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