The 2012 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses is the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party will choose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. There are 2,778 delegates, and a candidate must accumulate 1,390 delegate votes to win. The primary elections and caucuses will culminate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention held from September 3 through September 6, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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| - The 2012 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses is the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party will choose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. There are 2,778 delegates, and a candidate must accumulate 1,390 delegate votes to win. The primary elections and caucuses will culminate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention held from September 3 through September 6, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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| - Blue denotes a state won by Howard Dean.
- Orange denotes a state won by Janet Napolitano.
- Yellow denotes a state won by Hillary Clinton.
- Results of the 2012 Democratic Party primaries and caucuses
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- Hillary Clinton
- Janet Napolitano
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- presidential candidate
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| - The 2012 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses is the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party will choose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. There are 2,778 delegates, and a candidate must accumulate 1,390 delegate votes to win. The primary elections and caucuses will culminate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention held from September 3 through September 6, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The primary contest began with a fairly wide field, and was the first presidential primary affected by a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unlimited fundraising for candidates through super PACs. Two candidates who ran in 2008, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York and former Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, and one candidate who ran in 2004, former governor and former DNC chairman Howard Dean of Vermont, also ran in 2012. Dean took an early lead in polls with the support of much of the Democratic establishment, performing strongly in most polls and leading the field in fund-raising. However, his lead over the Democratic field has been precarious, due to the entry of Hillary Clinton, Mark Warner and Janet Napolitano. The field would split between anti-war candidates that wanted to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan (Dean and Kucinich) and those in favour of continued presence (Clinton, Warner and Napolitano).
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