Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battled in the primary in Montana Tuesday, one of the two remaining contests of the Democratic presidential primary election cycle.
Montana is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions of the United States.
The state ranks fourth in area, but 44th in population, and therefore has the third lowest population density in the United States.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture and significant lumber and mineral extraction as well as tourism.
There are 628,429 registered voters from a population of 957,861 in Montana.
In 2005, the Census Bureau estimated that 92.52 percent of the population in the state are white, 0.62 percent are black, and the rest are American Indian or Alaskan Native.
The polling hours are from 1300 GMT to 0200 GMT Wednesday and there are 16 delegates at stake.
After losing a string of contests to rival Clinton, Montana offers Obama his best chance to head into the general election with a head of steam.
He's riding a double-digit polling lead over Clinton in Montana.
Obama has won many of the neighboring Rocky Mountain and Great Plains state -- most of which were caucus formats.
But Montana holds a primary election, and its demographics would seem well suited to Clinton.
A narrow Clinton loss, combined with a surprise win in South Dakota, could lend energy to her last-ditch appeals to the superdelegates who will decide the nomination or -- if nothing else -- complicate her decision on whether to drop out.
Source:Xinhua
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