Official Michigan Democratic Primary Results Thread

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On Fox News Channel, they're already talking about exit poll results.  They just said that among black voters voting in the Dem. primary, it was:

Uncommitted 69%
Clinton 25%

Surprise, surprise. Actually, given the extremely low turnout, it's very possible that Clinton ends up humiliated. (The black vote will be a substantial part of the overall result.) We shall see.

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Is anyone else besides me thinking, that Uncommitted will win Detroit?

if the exit polls are anywhere close to correct there's no chance that it doesn't.

Does Michigan do things proportional by CD or proportional overall?

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Clinton at 92% in Chippewa County. Weird.

There seem to be some counties, particularly in the UP, where no Uncommitted votes were recorded at all. The campaign seems to have reached some areas and not others.

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Clinton at 92% in Chippewa County. Weird.

There seem to be some counties, particularly in the UP, where no Uncommitted votes were recorded at all. The campaign seems to have reached some areas and not others.

I would say that in the UP not many would vote for Obama in a normal election. Edwards might even beat out Obama in most UP areas.

The latter, probably, but Obama would still have managed 15-20% in the UP counties (with Edwards at more like 20-25%). That doesn't account for the abnormally low Uncommitted votes there, only uninformed voters do.

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Maybe they just don't see a need to call it.

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The CNN exit poll also suggests that the result would have been reasonably close with Obama and Edwards on the ballot:

Clinton: 45
Obama: 37
Edwards: 12
Kucinich: 2
Rchardson: 1

(Of course, this is skewed by turnout and a lack of campaigning by all involved.)

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UNCOMMITTED TAKES EMMET COUNTY!

But why Emmet County? I would have expected Wayne County, and maybe Washtenaw and Ingham Counties, but why Emmet?

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No, Emmet County is at the far north end of the LP. Washtenaw County is Ann Arbor and UMich (and Ingham County is East Lansing, where MSU is).

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Uncommitted leads Washtenaw County. Wayne County still looks very oddly unlike the exit poll, though the 34% may be almost exclusively white areas.

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Wayne County tightened substantially with the most recent 14% in (from something like 63-32 to 53-42), so it may in the end reflect the exit poll. Clinton has probably won Ingham County, unless East Lansing isn't in at all or something.

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Clinton 208,061 58%
 Uncommitted 131,421 37%
 Kucinich 14,488 4%
 Dodd 2,526 1%
 Gravel 1,597 0%

65% reporting - I noticed she also lost Washtenaw Co. too.

Unless you know something I don't, Washtenaw is only 47% in, though Uncommitted does indeed lead.

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If it hits 40% I will be VERY pleased.

It may well; almost all of what's left is from counties where Uncommitted is over 40%.

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Apparently there were about 20 counties that had computer systems that wouldn't count Uncommitted.

Is that...legal?  Will it be fixed or are we going to not get full results from those counties (LAME)?

It's going to be a close race in Wayne County and for Undecided to break 40%.

I don't know if it's legal. I could see their results being thrown out if someone challenges them in court.

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Washtenaw's all in; Uncommitted won 46-44. Surprisingly close race in Kent County (Grand Rapids) as well, though it's all in and voted for Clinton.

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wow, Clinton lost two counties, Emmet and Washtenaw.

wow.

She may lose Wayne County, too, if the remaining 8% is from mostly black areas. (And there's always the chance one or both of the two sluggard counties went crazy the way Emmet did.)

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They say that they managed to fix it... in most of them... they think.

Democracy lives in America.

Mostly.

I think.

Three counties did not fix it: Houghton, Otsego and Wexford. Democracy is in ill health.

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Clare County made its belated appearance as well; strongly for Clinton. All that's left now are Kalkaska County and a handful of votes from Livingston County.

I'm still wondering what happened in Emmet County.