The HRC spin machine is in full force... "Hey, we managed to hang on to our lead in many states. No surprises for Obama!"

But on the other hand, Obama isn't winning any headline-grabbing states. MSM might not like that.

It's all going to come down to CA tonight.

It'll be a blowout in CA for Hillary.

Fired up! Ready to go!

All in all, despite the inflated projections on the east coast, this has been Obama's night thus far.

California is still looming and in a very large way though. Clinton can salvage herself tonight with a considerably large win coupled with a win in Missouri. If that happens, she'll probably be considered by the press at large as the "winner" tonight, but she needs to win by a fairly significant margin in California.

Obama has put together a very convincing argument tonight that regardless of results tonight, Clinton is vulnerable, and Obama can indeed put together the coalition he needs for a transfromative election win in November.

Still a lot of votes left to count.

Obama is actually closing on Hillary in her NE "strongholds", obviously she'll remain the winner there, but not in the same way Obama has won in other parts of the country. As far as delegates go Obama is looking good, as long as Cali says close.

This is Barack Obama's night because he has brought the Clinton Machine to a grinding halt.

I do not understand why anyone would believe a Clinton. She says she would stop the war, but has voted for the war at every important opportunity. The same people who refused to impeach a criminal president, the same people who have allowed multiple attorney generals flout the law, these are the people who run and support Hillary's campaign.

The definition of political insanity is voting for the same people, again and again, and expecting a different result from them.

Who was it that said "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"?

Aren't the Clinton's working on number two in the foolery department?

I've never commented here before, but I have to admit, I am a little concerned about all of the contention I've seen. What are we? Republicans? Hillary's doing well, Obama's doing well. Obviously, nothing will be decided tonight. The only real, clear, unobjectionable fact that can be derived from tonight's primaries is that overall, this entire campaign is a massive victory for the Democratic Party.

Honestly, no matter who wins it, (and anybody claiming to know anything about the final outcome is either from the future, or totally full of crap) the real victor is our party. There is no reason to squander our party unity in the pursuit of one candidate or another. I think that whatever nominee we come up with will be the most capable, strongest candidate that we've had in a long, long time. Really, it's a wonderful choice we to have to make. We get to pick between steak and lobster, while the Republicans have to choose between three bland TV dinners.

So really, not to be preachy, but lets keep the tone as optimistic uplifting as our prospects are. The only thing that can hurt us now is a bunch of angry, petty, sniping, and counterproductive squabbling. It's always been our worst problem as a party, and there is no reason to fall into the same traps now, on the eve of our greatest chance to be the party we know we can be. That said, this is a wonderful site, and its users are some of the best on the internet.

Now, commence ripping me to pieces.

LisB, I'm not sure what results from Kansas and Minnesota you were looking at, the results never showed Hillary ahead of Obama there.

And maybe I spoke too soon about Arizona, a little eager over here :P

Get rid of caucuses. What a joke.

polls are closed in CA and it doesn't appear to be a "blowout for HRC."

To wwjb:

I have been studying pollster.com for months. That's where I got the latest poll numbers for Kansas and Minn.

Paging Matthew Weaver. Paging Matthew Weaver. Clinton campaign in triage, need your help!

To wwjb:

True enough. It will all come down to the delegates. But I think Barack is looking awfully good tonight, and we have plenty more states to go.

I do agree with pmk--while the delegate breakdowns are available elsewhere, they would be great to have.

News from a northern New Mexico polling site, where about 5 districts were voting today. Polls were open from noon until 7 PM. Ballots were running short by 2 PM. A handful more were sent over from a Santa Fe polling site. But by 4 PM, those were running out also. By the time I voted at 5 PM, they were using xeroxed copies with their own counting system, having received permission from the Dem Party of NM. All in all, about 1100 ballots were cast. In this heavily Hispanic area, Hillary won by about 15 votes.

Also considerable confusion in Santa Fe and Rio Rancho due to ballot shortages. Word is that not all sites were actively trying to obtain more ballots or work out a solution.

Isn't NM a caucus? If so, there are no 'ballots' are there?

MO within 19000 votes, or 2.86% with 88% in.

On GOP side, only a 400 vote difference!!! Wow!

NM is a party-run caucus, but the Dem Party site says that the voting will determine the allocation of the state's delegates. They also point out that this is the second time that a party-run Caucus has occurred in NM for a Presidential election. Both then (2004) and now, the results are used to select the pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. So it's a caucus but it's a primary. And they call 'em ballots.

Good lord look at the states Obama won. Idaho, North Dakota, Colorado, Connecticut, Alaska, Kansas, Delaware and Utah. Not exactly the stronghold of black voters. Every category saw improvement for Obama today even the latino vote. He still has a way to go but the broadbased appeal Obama is building to a multitude of different ethic, religious and gender-based groups has got to say something pretty clear.
An exciting night.
No doubt Clinton will speak tomorrow of California & New York, two states where the outcome really wasn't ever in doubt while Obama will talk of winning more delegates and more states. For a day that supposed to be the day that ended it all and offered up Hillary's coronation as the Democratic party's standard bearer, nothing was decided. Today was, for all intents and purposes, a tie. I still think though that the white vote is the big story from Obama. And that speech he gave tonight. Wow. He may have stolen the line from Maria Schriver but "We are the people we've been waiting for" just brought the house down.
I to do not know if Barack Obama can pull this thing through but with the right breaks in races this weekend and next week, he poised to take advantage of his focus on smaller races and caucus states. Depending on if enough super delegates start breaking his way this week, it isn't out of the question that Obama could be in a dead even heat with Clinton for delegates by this time next week.
Everything we have heard about Obama was that he was a slow starter but a spectacular closer...I think we are seeing that up close & personal.
One final note...I must admit getting teary eyed listening to his audience chanting USA USA USA with a black man onstage poised to have a truly serious shot at the White House. Obama may lose but he is now a force to be dealt with and he has changed the political dymanic in a way no one ever has in my lifetime.