Democratic Grand Finale Tuesday results thread (1st polls close @8pm ET)

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I think South Dakota is waiting for all the polls to close before reporting results.  I know Minnehaha County (Sioux Falls (pt.)) is waiting until 8 Central, when West river polls close, to put anything on their website.

I'm thinking the same as well, so hopefully we get a dump of votes here in about 15 minutes.

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Clinton lead holding the same with 10% in!!!

The first dump of votes started it at 10%, it wasn't a lead hold.

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Unless Sanders dominates in the western part of the state, I think Clinton takes SD.

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Bernie keeping it close in New Mexico.

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If Sanders can keep the margins the same in Minnehaha and see a bump in Lincoln, he could pull it out.

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That video was really cool.

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Good to see Pennington was corrected, this will be close.

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Funny how everyone thought the SD county map looked ugly early, now it looks damn near perfect, lol!

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CNN corrected the Pennington issue.

Funny how everyone thought the SD county map looked ugly early, now it looks damn near perfect, lol!

It's not symmetrical though.

Yet it essentially follows the river.

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Also pretty happy that Sanders is keeping New Mexico respectable.

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Roberts County, SD ruined the county map.

Lyman County being a tie is much worse.

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Socorro, NM is now a tie....lol

The returns coming in have been jumping all over the place. It's pissing me off, trying to make my map

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So, Hillary has won every state beginning with NEW...

not new hampshire

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Looks like SD could come down to Pennington County.

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Shannon County will come in strong for Clinton, so yeah, it's basically over.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

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Pennington coming in and Sanders margin dropping, congrats to Clinton.

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Montana going way too slow.

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Clinton apparent winner in SD - MSNBC

Poor map

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Sanders will meet with Obama in Washington on Thursday.

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So has New Jersey stopped counting votes for the rest of the night?

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New Mexico, despite being called, has gotten closer. 51.6-48.4 Clinton right now.

It would be hilarious if he does better in New Mexico than South Dakota.

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So, is this going to be the first ever blonde vs blonde presidential election?

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The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

People in California can still mail in ballots today as long as it is postmarked by midnight.

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The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

People in California can still mail in ballots today as long as it is postmarked by midnight.

Whaaa?

Source?  Is California the only state that has that?

It's what they said on MSNBC. There is a reason that multiple counties flipped for Obama weeks after election day in 2012.

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I think another lesson from this primary cycle is how hard it is to poll Hispanics and that Clinton positively netted on election day compared to the polls. Could be a good sign for Clinton going into November.