It looks like what Mayor Fenty told our reporter about high voter turnout in the District was spot on: Unofficial results from the DCBOEE show that about 38 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the city, which is both the highest of any presidential primary in 20 years, and higher than the turnout for Mayor Fenty's defeat of Linda Cropp in 2006's mayoral primary.

Mike DeBonis has some more initial numbers this morning on turnout, and dubs Barack Obama "President 142", as the candidate appears to have won in every single one of D.C.'s 142 precincts (thanks in large part to Mayor Fenty's political machine, which achieved the same feat for the Mayor in November, 2006).

Turnout was even more incredibly high in Virginia (a 130 percent increase!) and in Maryland, where officials were estimating a 39 percent turnout, which roughly equals the record set in 1992 - though that extra 90 minutes of voting time has to be factored in to those figures.

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