ELECTION '08 | John McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, an extraordinary comeback for a candidate whose White House hopes were dashed eight years ago and whose second bid was left for dead eight months ago.
ELECTION '08 | Mike Huckabee bowed to reality Tuesday and out of the Republican presidential race.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. addresses supporters during a primary night rally Tuesday.
ELECTION '08 | Hillary Rodham Clinton scored comeback primary wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night, denting Barack Obama's delegate lead in a riveting Democratic presidential race. Arizona Sen. John McCain, an unflinching supporter of the war in Iraq, clinched the Republican nomination.
Understanding the delegate process
Candidate
NYT
A.P.
Obama
1,311.5
1,466
Clinton
1,211
1,376
2,025 needed to win
The New York Times, unlike other news organizations like The Associated Press, does not include projections that are based on nonbinding votes for candidate preference, such as the Iowa caucuses. The Associated Press counts are projections based on the candidate winning an estimated number of delegates.
- Supports de-authorizing the war.
- Voted for war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008.
- Opposed Bush plan to increase the number of American troops in Iraq.
- Supports a phased redeployment and a cap on the number of American troops in Iraq.
- Opposed use of military force in Iraq.
- Voted for war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008.
- Supports phased redeployment of U.S. troops.
- Opposed Bush's plan to send additional troops to Iraq.
- Voted for use of military force in Iraq.
- Supported Bush veto of war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008.
- Was an early proponent of sending additional American troops to Iraq.
- Opposed 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.
- Opposed extending tax cuts through 2010.
- Opposed extending 2003 Bush tax cut law through 2010.
- Supports eliminating marriage penalty and extending child tax credit.
- Supports scaling back capital gains and dividends tax cuts and re-examining tax benefits for the top one percent of earners.
- Voted against 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cut laws, but later voted in favor of extending tax cuts through 2010.
- Mandates individual health insurance coverage for all Americans.
- Offers federal subsidies for those who cannot afford it.
- Expands Medicaid and federal children's health care programs.
- Cost estimated at $110 billion annually, to be paid for by eliminating the Bush tax cuts.
- Allows individuals to choose between public or private insurance programs.
- Requires employers who do not provide health coverage for employees to pay into the national health insurance program.
- Opposes federally mandated universal coverage.
- Would increase awareness and promote the use of existing children's health insurance programs while expanding community health centers.
- Supports abortion rights.
- Supports abortion rights.
- Opposes abortion rights, except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.
- Voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
- Supported Bush-backed immigration reform legislation, which would increase funding and improve border security technology, improve enforcement of existing laws and provide a legal path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants.
- Co-sponsored Bush-backed immigration reform legislation, which would increase funding and improve border security technology, improve enforcement of existing laws and provide a legal path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants.
- Supports expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
- Supports expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
- Supports federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on embryos that would otherwise be discarded or perpetually frozen.
- Opposes Bush plan allowing workers to divert some Social Security payroll taxes into private retirement accounts.
- Opposes Bush plan allowing workers to divert some Social Security payroll taxes into private retirement accounts.
- Supported Bush plan to allow workers to divert some Social Security payroll taxes to private retirement accounts.
- Opposes raising payroll taxes.
- Voted for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban.
- Supports the licensing and registration of handguns.
- Supports raising the youth handgun ban to age 21 from 18.
- Supports extending the assault weapons ban.
- Supports national law against carrying concealed weapons.
- Supports limiting gun sales to one per month.
- Sponsored legislation requiring background checks at gun shows.
- Voted against a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban.
- Opposed legislation requiring trigger locks for handguns.