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  MA US President - D Primary
  RACE DETAILS
Parents > United States > Massachusetts > President
Parent RaceUS President - D Primaries
OfficePresident
TypePrimary Election
Filing Deadline December 06, 2007 - 05:00pm
Polls Open February 05, 2008 - 06:00am
Polls Close February 05, 2008 - 07:00pm
Term Start January 20, 2009 - 12:00pm
Term End January 20, 2013 - 12:00pm
Last ModifiedRBH March 18, 2016 09:11pm
Data Sources[Link]
Massachusetts Secretary of State
DescriptionBallot [Link] includes: Kucinich, Obama, Richardson, Edwards, Biden, Gravel, Dodd and Clinton.

Polling Hours: 7:00am - 8:00pm (EST)

Elections Division: [Link]
LAST GENERAL ELECTION
PartyDemocratic Won11/02/2004
NameJohn F. Kerry Votes1,803,800 (61.94%)
Term01/20/2005 - 01/20/2009 Margin732,691 (+25.16%)
COUNTY-LEVEL RESULTS
KEY RACE? 7.0000000000 Average
LEANING PREDICTIONS    Detail
Hillary Clinton
Safe 3
Strong 2
Lean 4
Slight 13
Barack Obama
Strong 1
Lean 2
Slight 5
MATCHUP POLL GRAPH

08/07/2005 02/03/2008
Graph MoE
 Ignore Pollsters:
American Research Group
KRC Communications Research
Rasmussen Reports
Suffolk University
Survey USA
University of New Hampshire
Western New England University

CANDIDATES
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Name Sen. Hillary Clinton Sen. Barack Obama Sen. John Edwards No Preference (W) Write-In Joe Biden Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich
PartyDemocratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic
Votes705,185 (56.02%) 511,680 (40.64%) 20,101 (1.60%) 8,041 (0.64%) 3,279 (0.26%) 3,216 (0.26%) 2,992 (0.24%)
Margin0 (0.00%) -193,505 (-15.37%) -685,084 (-54.42%) -697,144 (-55.38%) -701,906 (-55.75%) -701,969 (-55.76%) -702,193 (-55.78%)
Predict Avg.41.33% 40.00% 8.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.33%
Finances$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
MATCHUP POLLS
Suffolk University 
02/01-02/03		 44.00% (+12.0) 46.00% (+28.0) -0.00% (+19.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+1.0) -0.00% (+1.0)
Survey USA 
02/01-02/03		 56.00% (-1.0) 39.00% (+6.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Survey USA 
01/31-01/31		 57.00% (-2.0) 33.00% (+11.0) -0.00% (+11.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Rasmussen Reports 
01/28-01/28		 43.00% (+0.0) 37.00% (+0.0) 11.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Western New England University 
01/20-01/26		 43.00% (+0.0) 15.00% (+0.0) 8.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Survey USA 
01/22-01/23		 59.00% (+3.0) 22.00% (-1.0) 11.00% (-3.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
ENDORSEMENTS
Endorsements
  Cape Cod Times
D Stephen F. Lynch [L]
D Salvatore F. DiMasi [L]
D Therese Murray [L]
IPR Drew Benson R.I.P.
D Jamie Eldridge [L]
R CincinnatiReds1990
  Boston Herald
D James V. DiPaola [L]
D Steven Myles Walsh [L]
D John D. Keenan [L]
D Michael A. Costello [L]
R Geoff Diehl [L]
MORE CANDIDATES
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Name Gov. Bill Richardson Sen. Mike Gravel Sen. Chris Dodd
PartyDemocratic Democratic Democratic
Votes1,846 (0.15%) 1,463 (0.12%) 1,120 (0.09%)
Margin-703,339 (-55.87%) -703,722 (-55.90%) -704,065 (-55.93%)
Predict Avg.0.00% 0.30% 0.00%
Finances$0.00 $0.00 $0.00
MATCHUP POLLS
Suffolk University 
02/01-02/03		 -0.00% (+4.0) -0.00% (+1.0) -0.00% (+1.0)
Survey USA 
02/01-02/03		 -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Survey USA 
01/31-01/31		 -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Rasmussen Reports 
01/28-01/28		 -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Western New England University 
01/20-01/26		 -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
Survey USA 
01/22-01/23		 -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0) -0.00% (+0.0)
ENDORSEMENTS
Endorsements

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Dec 11, 2006 09:00pm News Kennedy rethinks support for a Kerry presidential run in '08  Article COSDem 

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