UPDATE: 8:45 p.m. Roughly half an hour after polls closed at 8 p.m. ET, multiple networks reported that it was still too early to determine which Democratic presidential candidate triumphed in the Massachusetts primary Tuesday night.
MNSBC and CNN both reported that results were too early to call the race between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Clinton and Sanders were neck-and-neck with just .46 precincts reporting. At that time, Clinton had 49.57 percent and Sanders had 49.49 percent.
NBC News called the race “too close” to call.
JUST IN: @NBCNews is characterizing the Massachusetts Democratic primary as too close to call: https://t.co/fb2QUF55nZ #SuperTuesday
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 2, 2016
TPM’s Polltracker Average showed Clinton with 50 percent support and Sanders with 45:
MSNBC must not be communicating with NBC, who just called MA for Clinton
They need some more drama, I guess…
Then again, they are still reporting. Is NBC the only network that called it?
So far
Currently (8:57 there) at 52-47 for Clinton, with 12% precincts in.
Frankly, unless there are a lot of Sanders-leaning precincts still out there, even at 12% reporting a 5% lead is substantial.
Maybe not enough to call yet, but it is quite unlikely for Sanders to reverse the standings there. Again, unless there are some heavily Sanders-leaning precincts out there yet to report (don’t know; I don’t have a precinct map).Hmm. Found the Boston Globe map. Worcester and Amherst, heavy college districts, yet unreported, along with large swathes of the Vermont border precincts. Yeah, I think that qualifies as too early to tell.
Oklahoma, on the other hand, is quite clearly for Sanders, 52-41 with 50% reporting. Are we missing 7%? Why yes, we are: 7% - about 12,000 votes - got distributed between local candidates and people not even running anymore. Sigh, Oklahoma.