WASHINGTON, March 2 Kyodo Democra...

WASHINGTON, March 2 Kyodo

Democrats began voting Tuesday in 10 states coast to coast, including delegate-rich California and strange York, to choose the party's presidential candidate to challenge Republican President George W Bush.

The eight other states involved in the ''Super Tuesday'' primaries are Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont

Democratic presidential front-runner Sen John Kerry of Massachusetts has in this way far won 18 of 20 strive to holds with Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina staying forward in the race as his alone chief rival.

In all the Super Tuesday states where novel polls have been taken, Kerry was plant to be in the lead -- in many cases at large margins, CNN reported.

A total of 1151 delegates are up for grabs Tuesday. Kerry has 754 delegates to such a degree far while Edwards has 220

To win the presidential nomination at the Democratic national convention in July a candidate destitutions 2,162 delegates out of 4322

House of Representatives member Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Sen Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, retired Army Gen Wesley Clark and former Vermont Gov Howard Dean have dropp without of the Democratic presidential nomination race.

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