The 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008 ( Super Tuesday), with 52 national delegates.

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narrowly defeated

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to win the largest share of

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's delegates to the

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. Both McCain and the third-place candidate

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received delegates along with Huckabee. At of 10:15 PM ET on February 5, the

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reported that with 44% of precincts reporting Huckabee and McCain were tied with about one-third of the vote each. Earlier, with 31% of precincts in, McCain had 34% support, Huckabee 31%, Romney 23% and Paul 6% support. The City Paper reported that voter turnout could beat the state's record of 830,000 in 1988 when

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was on the presidential ballot for the first time. AP exit polls showed that Huckabee did well with

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s and conservatives.

Results

* Candidate dropped out of the race before the primary

References

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2008 Tennessee elections 2008 Super Tuesday Tennessee Republican primaries

Results

See also

References