Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman to serve in the upper chamber of Congress. Elected in 1992 and defeated for re-election in 1998, she then served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand. She dropped her bid for the Democratic nomination on January 15, 2004.
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Total Delegates shows CNN's total current delegate count for each candidate
and may include delegates not accounted for in the summation of the current
delegate counts listed above by state. Visit the 
Instead of releasing caucus vote totals, the Iowa and Idaho Democratic Parties release a total indicating the number of delegates to the state convention each candidate will receive. 
