Official Florida Primary Result Page (Bipartisan)

[Torie]

The Pasco and Pinellas County absentees have been counted. These two counties are supposed to be bellweathers. The results:

Pasco Mccain 31% Romney 29%
Pinellas McCain 31% Romney 26%

[Meeker]

This is really, really close.

[Gabu]

Apparently Bradford County likes its Southern folk, as Edwards has Clinton within 5% there.

[Bacon King]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#FL

Results on CNN.

[Gabu]

Romney just jumped into the lead on CNN by ~100 votes.

[M]

So who are early indicators supporting?

[J. J.]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#FL

Results on CNN.

Perfect.  Thank you.

[Torie]

County results on the Republican side, according to CNN...

Huckabee is leading by 6% in Bradford County with 10% reporting.
Romney is leading by 6% in Columbia County with 4% reporting.
Romney is leading by 9% in Duval County with <1% reporting.
McCain is leading by 11% in Hillsborough County with <1% reporting.
McCain is leading by 1% in Manatee County with 5% reporting.
Romney is leading by 4% in Nassau County with 9% reporting.
McCain is leading by 2% in Pasco County with 20% reporting.
McCain is leading by 5% in Pinellas County with <1% reporting.
McCain is leading by 7% in St. Lucie County with 5% reporting.
Romney is leading by 9% in Suwannee County with 6% reporting.

That's all the counties with votes thus far.

I'm not Al, so I'll leave this to more knowledgeable sorts to see whether this means anything.

I think they are all absentee votes, and the precinct percentages are meaningless since the counties probably do it different ways. But if the today voters go the same as the absentees per the above, McCain will win.

[Verily]

Apparently Bradford County likes its Southern folk, as Edwards has Clinton within 5% there.

I wouldn't be surprised if he wins a handful of the Dixiecrat-heavy counties in far north Florida (some of which have Democratic registrations at around 70% but voted 70% for Bush).

[Keystone Phil]

So who are early indicators supporting?

Looks like McCain since Romney Country is reporting first and he's barely ahead. Then again, it's way too early to get a good feeling.

[J. J.]

Romnwy up by 2 point with 4% reporting.  IMO, he should be doing better.

[cp]

Though as we all know calling Florida early is both unsound and unwise this is worth mentioning: By this point in the tallied votes for all the other primaries so far, D and R, the pattern that was evident ended up being accurate to the final result. With that in mind:

The Dems have a not-unsurprising Clinton landslide. If she manages to pull a lot of black voters she might even get some momentum going into super tuesday.

For the GOP it's a razor-thin win/loss for Romney/McCain. Unsurprisingly this is mixed news for both camps. McCain probably has his momentum zapped, but Romney doesn't get too much of his own. Super tuesday will be all the more unpredictable as a result.

[M]

McCain
   
84,797
   
33%
   
0
   
7%
reporting
   
Romney
   
82,890
   
32%
   
0
   
Giuliani
   
43,127
   
17%
   
0
   
Huckabee
   
32,405
   
13%
   
0
   
Paul
   
8,375
   
3%
   
0
   
Thompson
   
5,103
   
2%
   
0
   
Hunter
   
473
   
0%
   
0

[J. J.]

Trending McCain, from what I'm hearing.

[Bacon King]

Having a single digit amount of precincts in is far too early to be jumping to any sort of conclusion, especially in a state as large and diverse as Florida.

[Gabu]

Clinton is down to 52% from a high of 58% a while ago... if she gets below 50% by the time this is done, that's probably not a good thing.

[Eraserhead]

Clinton is down to 52% from a high of 58% a while ago... if she gets below 50% by the time this is done, that's probably not a good thing.

For her you mean right?

[Eraserhead]

McCain just had a big jump.

[Verily]

Clinton is down to 52% from a high of 58% a while ago... if she gets below 50% by the time this is done, that's probably not a good thing.

For her you mean right?

No, Gabu has been assimilated

[HardRCafé]

Page 7, and polls have not even closed.

I wish this were less depressing.

[Meeker]

MSNBC isn't even including the Dem results in their ticker. Haven't mentioned it once.

[J. J.]

McCain just had a big jump.

That is most of the early voting too.

[Bacon King]

Though it's too early to really tell anything for sure, I'd predict Clinton to be under 50%, especially if the Panhandle comes in strongly for Edwards.

[Eraserhead]

Clinton is down to 52% from a high of 58% a while ago... if she gets below 50% by the time this is done, that's probably not a good thing.

For her you mean right?

No, Gabu has been assimilated

lol I'm a bit worried because of how much attention the media is giving this thing.

[J. J.]

Mac up by 4 at 10%.