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Obama captures electoral prize of California

WASHINGTON
Tue Nov 4, 2008 11:07pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama won the biggest prize of the state-by-state U.S. election on Tuesday, defeating Republican John McCain in solidly Democratic California and walking away with its huge cache of 55 electoral votes, U.S. media projected.

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Obama's victory was expected, with pre-election opinion polls giving him a double-digit lead over McCain in a state that has not backed a Republican for president since George H.W. Bush, father of the current president, in 1988.

Obama wins California's 55 electoral votes, a big boost toward the 270 needed to win the presidency under the United States' indirect system of electing a leader.
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