Well, we'll see. Though Hillary was always expected to win Ohio by a sizable margin. That doesn't mean she didn't win the state, but it does mean that this isn't some great turnaround. It means that the polls of the past 14 months were right. But it still doesn't change the math - she doesn't have enough delegates to catch up to Obama. Let us remind our friends in the media one more time: Winning a state that you were expected to win does not an upset make.
UPDATE 11:08 PM: NBC's Andrea Mitchell just reported that Hillary Clinton's campaign "came back from the dead here in Ohio. They had a big, big lead. They blew that lead." Um, Andrea, Hillary always had a lead in Ohio. She never lost that lead. Stop making things up.
(Source: Pollster.com)
Everyone is reporting that...
Cuyahoga County officials are predicting they won't have all ballots counted there until about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the delay due in part "to a judge's order to keep 21 precincts open until 9 p.m. and because of bad weather."I asked Joe why it mattered that Cuyahoga won't come in until the morning, and he said that this county includes Cleveland, has a huge population, something on the order of 400,000 votes, and it should go for Obama. So, even though Hillary is ahead in the vote that's already come in, it's very hard to call the state without knowing how Cuyahoga goes (and there are several other large counties that haven't reported in either). And again, since we're talking delegates here, a simple majority isn't really a win. Such a huge area matters for the total delegate count. That means the media may not be able to call Ohio until the early morning.
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