Those eight contests have 519 delegates at stake: 238 awarded winner-takes-all, 241 split proportionally and 40 unpledged.

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Senator Barack Obama has now won eight straight Democratic nominating contests.

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Kieran McGeeney and Seamus Moynihan are the only survivors from the 1998 series when the International Rules contests were revived after an eight-year lapse.

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At the age of eight she discovered that she could sing and her mother immediately began forcing her to enter talent contests.

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