Today is the Potomac primary where Virginia, Maryland & District of Columbia vote. You can watch live results as they come in. When a candidate is declared the winner their name will go into bold and of course (winner) will be put next to them.

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With 0% in and 0% reporting John McCain & Barack Obama have taken Maryland!

With 0% in and 0% reporting Barack Obama has won DC.

This is going to be a blowout!

This just in, snow and bad weather will keep the polls open an extra 90 minutes.

So polls close at 9:30PM Eastern

The minute the polls closed CNN announced Obama was the winner with zero percent reporting and zero percent in. This means the exit polls are right and this is going to undoubtedly be a blowout!

Exit polls showing Huckabee is competitive in Virginia.

Drudge has been consistent in posting the exit poll results ahead of the poll closing and today is no different.

EXIT POLLS SHOW 2:1 OBAMA LEAD OVER HILLARY IN VA AND MD, 3:1 IN DC… DEVELOPING…
HUCKABEE GIVES MCCAIN RUN IN VA: EXITS…

Undoubtedly Huffington Post will be next and then the blogs.

Note: I understand now why every news person has been asking “what if one candidate does REALLY well today and runs away with it?

The first bit of information from the exit polls are coming in.

VIRGINIA
Republicans
Virginia Republicans, Huckabee voters 42% “often listen to talk radio”, McCain voters just 23%

64% of Huckabee voters are born-again/Evangelical
32% for McCain

Democrats

Clinton and Obama voters put
Economy #1
Iraq #2
Health Care #3

Voters for both rank them the same with about the same percentages

Women 56% Women, 44% Men

63% White, 29% Black, 8% Other (Black turnout is down, was 33% in 2004)

By Age Group
17-29 11%
30-44 25%
45-64 35%
65+ 28%

First time Voter 35%
Voted Previously 64%

Reports are that turnout is higher than normal in the Potomac primary though weather could be a factor in slowing it down. Meanwhile the Obama camp is saying turnout is high in the right places for them.

Exit polls should start being available in an hour which means if they are gonna leak, they are gonna leak in a little while.

FOX News is reporting that Hillary Clinton has cancelled DC area events today with no explanation.

All watching expect Senator Obama to sweep D.C., Virginia and Maryland today but Martin Frost writing at the Politico suggests that because of Maryland’s history he might win the state but not get the sweep he is hoping for.

Though now considered a heavily Democratic state and a generally liberal enclave, Maryland has a long — but little-known — history of racial division that may cut into Obama’s margin. It is not by accident that the Mason-Dixon Line (separating the North and the South) is the northern boundary of Maryland.

Maryland has a large black population, which would seem to favor Obama. The black vote could be even larger than normal because of a contested congressional primary in Prince George’s County and a sliver of neighboring Montgomery County. In the 4th District, community activist Donna Edwards is challenging Rep. Albert Wynn from the left; both candidates are black, and the primary will be held the same day as the presidential voting.

However, for a variety of reasons, the dynamics of the Maryland presidential primary may boost Clinton’s support. White voters on the Eastern Shore and in the western part of the state are very conservative and may be reluctant to vote for a black candidate.

The liberal bastion of Montgomery County in the D.C. suburbs contains many former officials from Bill Clinton’s administration, and Hillary Clinton’s share of the women’s vote could be very strong there.

Also, largely ignored is the fact that Maryland has a sizable Jewish population. When I was a young man in the 1960s, my Maryland relatives used to kid me about the fact that Baltimore had a larger Jewish population than the entire state of Texas, where I grew up. Texas has probably caught up by now, but the Jewish population of Maryland is still very large and very politically active.

There is a lot more in the article so check it out!