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Last night I was flipping through the cable news channels in order to live-blog the Potomac Primary results, and as you'll see if you follow that link and scroll down toward after the 9 p.m. mark, something was amiss with the District's election returns. More than an hour after the polls closed, there was zero data from any of D.C.'s 142 precincts available from any major news outlet. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer even mentioned on-air that D.C.'s results were coming in "very, very slowly."

Though the map may appear as if Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) did well in many Northwest neighborhoods, she only managed to keep Obama under 60 percent of the vote in ten precincts. Her strongest showing was Precinct 3, the neighborhood including the Watergate, some G.W. housing, and the Foggy Bottom Historic District; but she still lost to Obama in a 275-243 vote.

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.

The District, Maryland and Virginia are all heading to the polls tomorrow in a historic all-Potomac presidential primary. It's such an unusual primary schedule that, especially in the tight Democratic race, it's made the delegates up for grabs in the region significantly more important than they often have been in the past.

Wonkette says this campaign ad for GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain will start playing locally now that the "Potomac Primary" on Feb. 12, made up of Maryland, D.C. and Virginia, is one of the next big strategic primary dates on the calendar.