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Obama just won the first contest of Super Tuesday!

The results of the first contest of Super Tuesday, the vote of fewer than 100 registered Democrats in Indonesia, are in:

The midnight (1700 GMT Monday) ballot at a five-star hotel saw red-eyed US expatriates stay up late to choose between Obama and Clinton. …

Clinton-backer General Wesley Clark, himself a contender for nomination in 2004, called in via an online telephone to deliver his stump speech, oblivious to a scrambled link that amused the crowd by garbling much of his comments.

Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng had better success with her phone line and was enthusiastically cheered.

The provisonal tally released after the vote did not give a total number of ballots cast, but saw Obama win 75 percent to Clinton’s 25 percent.

The tally at this point:

Obama: 1 victory. Clinton: None.

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