U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was projected by U.S. media to win the West Virginia primary by wide margin on Tuesday.
TV channels including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC made projection shortly after the polling stations were closed around 7:30 p.m. (2330 GMT) since their exit polls indicated the New York Senator's big win in the state.
The Mountain state was described by Fox News as the friendliest terrain yet to the New York Senator in her drawn-out struggle with Illinois Barack Obama for the presidential candidacy, for it beinga makeup of woman, white, older, working-class and culturally conservative voters, who all favor Clinton, shown from the previous primaries and caucuses.
It also has a dearth of two key supporter groups behind Obama's success, blacks and holders of Bachelor's degree or higher.
However, political analysts said that the win in West Virginia could hardly help Clinton to cut into Obama's lead in the number of delegates to the national convention no matter how big it would be.
Source:Xinhua
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