2008-03-11 22:53:33 Xinhua English
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WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in the party's presidential primary in Mississippi on Tuesday as expected, but the race between them is expected to go on for a long time.
The following is a list of states, in addition to Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, that Obama and Clinton have won respectively in their contests for the Democratic presidential nomination, in the order of date in which primaries and caucuses were held.
Obama:
Iowa, South Carolina, Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah, Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, Maine, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Vermont, U.S. Virgin Islands, Democrats Abroad, Wyoming and Mississippi.
¡@Clinton:
New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and American Samoa.
Attention shall be paid to the contests in Michigan and Florida, both of which were won by Clinton, because the Democratic primaries in the two states do not count due to a party dispute over the date of the contests.