February 5, 2008

PRIMARY DAY - OBAMA TAKES EARLY LEAD!

Kate Redmond of Fairplay, Colorado, center, casts her ballot as others queue up to vote in 2008 U.S. presidential primary, at a hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, 05 Feb 2008, Voice of America, 05 February 2008

U.S. Democrats living in Indonesia cast the first votes in the Super Tuesday round of primary elections. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta, where Senator Barack Obama was the favored candidate. More than 100 members of the U.S. Democratic Party gathered in a Jakarta hotel to choose a candidate for the United States' presidential race early Tuesday morning.

Voting began at the stroke of midnight. Early results at the hotel indicated 75 percent of the Jakarta vote went to Senator Barack Obama, who spent some of his childhood years in Indonesia.

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