COLORADO RESULTS Democrats 2,627 of 2,627 of precincts reporting Gore 71% Bradley 23% Uncomm. 4% LaRouche 1% Republicans 2,627 of 2,627 of precincts reporting Bush 65% McCain 27% Keyes 7% Forbes 1% Bauer 1% Hatch 0% Percentages will not necessarily add to 100. UTAH RESULTS Democrats 952 of 953 precincts reporting Gore 81% Bradley 19% Republicans 952 of 953 of precincts reporting Bush 63% Keyes 20% McCain 15% Forbes 1% Bauer 0% Percentages will not necessarily add to 100. WYOMING RESULTS Republicans 22 of 22 precincts reporting Bush 78% Keyes 12% McCain 10% One precinct did not hold straw poll. Percentages will not necessarily add to 100. MORE COVERAGE Exit polls: Bush, Gore win broad support in Colorado, Utah WHAT'S NEXT Arizona holds its Democratic primary on Saturday, March 11. That event is notable as the first in which voting over the Internet has ever been allowed. Also Saturday, Democrats in Michigan and Minnesota will hold caucuses. On Sunday, March 12, Nevada Democrats will hold caucuses. [ Full schedule ]

The vice president and the Texas governor are past the campaign for the Democratic and Republican nominations, and confronting each other in a marathon struggle for the general election eight months away.

The national campaign is on, with 24 state primaries still to come.

The two Western primaries, along with GOP county conventions plus a straw poll in Wyoming, are the remnants of a failed attempt to gain clout for Rocky Mountain and Western states in the nomination of presidents. Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah tried to engineer a nine-state combination, but couldn't.

As the campaign turned out, it would have been too late anyhow, with Republican challenger John McCain and Democrat Bill Bradley both out of the race.

In Colorado and Utah, Gore and Bush won predictable landslides.

McCain and Bradley each stood to gain a handful of delegates since they were awarded in proportion to the popular vote.

• With 100 percent of the Colorado precincts reporting, Bush had 65 percent of the vote, McCain 27 percent and Alan Keyes 7 percent. So Bush was leading for 28 delegates, McCain for 12. Gore was polling 71 percent of the Democratic vote to 23 percent for Bradley. Gore led for 44 Democratic delegates to 7 for Bradley.

• In Utah, with 93 percent of precincts reporting, Bush was polling 63 percent, Keyes 20 percent, and McCain 15 percent. Even a distant second place would be Keyes' best outing of the season. Bush got all 29 GOP delegates in Utah. For the Democrats, Gore had 81 percent of the vote to Bradley's 19 percent. Gore won 16 delegates to Bradley's two, with six yet to be allocated.

Keyes says he will keep campaigning despite the certainty of Bush's nomination. He said it is a myth that politics should be about winning.

Republicans who attended the Wyoming conventions overwhelmingly supported Bush. With 22 of 23 county caucus sites reporting, Bush collected 422 votes in a straw poll. Alan Keyes received 75 votes and John McCain 59. Bush picked up 19 delegates, McCain 2 and Keyes 1.

Bush went into Friday's primaries with 617 of the 1,034 delegates needed to win the nomination.

Gore had 1,479; it takes 2,170 to install the Democratic nominee.

The primary outcome was forgone before a vote was cast.

Nonetheless, Leavitt said it was worth the effort. "The voice of the West will be heard," the governor, a Bush man, said after voting in Salt Lake City.

Few seemed interested. At one Salt Lake City polling place, only five people cast ballots during the first hour and 45 minutes. "Nobody cares," said Clayton Hurst, an election judge.

The western delegates push Bush and Gore closer to majorities by which the national conventions will ratify the primaries that were settled in only six weeks, when both men won overwhelmingly in the 16 contests of Super Tuesday. Gore swept, Bush won all but four GOP contests, and both races were over.

Bush and Gore were evenly matched in a CNN-Time poll released Friday, Gore with the backing of 48 percent of registered voters and Bush with 46 percent. The poll, taken after Tuesday's results, also showed the two candidates closely matched on public perception of their strengths as candidates.

Exit polls from Colorado and Utah showed voters mostly satisfied with a Bush-Gore matchup in November. Fewer than a fifth said they would consider a third-party candidate. Voters were surveyed as they left the polling places by Voter News Service, a consortium of The Associated Press and television networks.

In both states, conservatives made up two-thirds of the Republican primary electorate -- a bigger share than in any other GOP contest with exit polls this year except the Iowa caucuses.

The exit poll showed Bush stronger on a question that had nagged in the earlier primary states, with four out of five Colorado and Utah voters saying he knows enough to serve effectively as president. There was more skepticism among people who called themselves independents, the bloc that had boosted McCain. About 30 percent expressed doubts on Bush's ability.

Bush again ran strongest among Republicans, while about half the self-styled independents in both primary states opted for McCain or Keyes. Along with the delegates, the rest of the primary schedule offers something of a framework for the national campaigns.

The vice president was on the road all weekend, in New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Miami and Orlando, winding up at home in Tennessee, one of next Tuesday's primary states. It is the kind of road trip that usually waits until fall, but there was no waiting in the 2000 campaign, with the party contests over early.

Bush took a break at home in Austin before beginning a two-day swing through the Southern states that vote next week. The biggest of them are his own Texas, and Florida, where his brother, Jeb, is governor. Both will be crucial to the Republican ticket in the Nov. 7 presidential election.

A high-tech wrinkle added a bit of interest in Arizona on Saturday. No doubt about the outcome, but for the first time, Arizona Democrats had the option of voting over the Internet beginning last Tuesday.

There are primaries to come in other major states that will be keys to the general election, among them Illinois on March 21, Pennsylvania on April 4 and New Jersey on June 6, the last day of primary voting.