Morning Update: West Virginia and Oil
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) won the West Virginia primary by a wide margin Tuesday night, taking 67 percent of the vote over Sen. Barack Obama’s 26 percent. According to preliminary CNN exit polls, 65 percent of West Virginia voters named the economy as the most important issue facing the country. 17 percent listed Iraq.
Both Democratic candidates returned to Washington on Tuesday to vote to stop stockpiling oil (NYT) in the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did not attend the vote.
A new series of CFR.org Backgrounders profiles the main foreign policy advisers for Clinton, Obama, and McCain.
