Super Tuesday Election Results Live Blog

1:40 PM:  Might as well get this started.  Mike Huckabee has won all 18 delegates from the West Virginia GOP convention.  WV does not have a Primary or Caucus, but a convention:

Huckabee won in the second round of voting in West Virigina.

Romney picked up 41 percent of the vote in the first round, but failed to get the necessary 50 percent in the second round to win it.

The blogs are buzzing about a potential deal made between McCain supporters - who bombed the first round - and Huckabee delegates.

1:56 PM:  I'm sure that it doesn't matter to anyone, but I will not be at Brookens tonight.  Live blogging is still planned, absent any emergencies.

7:23 PM:  Live-blogging from the couch, rather than at Brookens.  Spending an evening trying to collect stool samples from a four-month-old put all of this in perspective, of course.

Early calls (read: blowouts):  Illinois and Georgia for Obama, Oklahoma for Clinton.  New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois for McCain, Massachusetts for Romney.  NJ and CT are big wins, as they are winner take all.  As for the other states, I wonder why the networks even project winners in states like Illinois, where the delegate allocations are largely district-by-district.  I'd love to see vote totals and exit polls for each Congressional District in Illinois, for example, to give some idea of the eventual delegate counts.

7:30 PM:  Arkansas goes to Huckabee and Clinton.  No surprise.  Alabama has also been called for Huckabee.

7:41 PM:  Champaign County results here.  Nothing reported yet.

Illinois results here.  Also nothing reported yet.

7:45 PM:  If these early, leaked Democratic exit polls are accurate, then Obama clobbered Clinton today.  If.

7:47 PM:  More early national exit polling, for Republicans.  Notice that there have already been at least one state (Delaware) called in contradiction to its exit polls, which is just further reinforcement of how exit polls are for entertainment purposes only.

8:12 PM:  Lots of chatter in both blogospheres about shoddy exit polls.  Deleware has already been called for McCain, though the exits said Romney would win it.  I wonder if any of these states called as their polls closed based solely on exit polling are going to get pulled back later.

8:15 PM:  Still no local results, but at this point I'm willing to make an early call based on exit polling in one crucial race:  in Cunningham 23, IP.com is now willing to project that Gordy Hulten will be elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, based on a exit poll sample of one voter.  :-)

8:22 PM:  McCain projected winner of all of New York's delegates.  Expected, but still a huge number of delegates.

8:24 PM:  Full Illinois exit polls for Democrats and Republicans.

8:45 PM: Massachusetts just called for Clinton, in contradiction to its exit polling.  Clinton is up 21 percent there, with 45 percent reporting.  Huge upset win for Clinton, IMO.

Still nothing locally.

9:27 PM:  Local results are starting to trickle in.  With 24 precincts reporting:

• McCain 37, Romney 34.  Dan Rutherford (Romney) is the runaway leader among delegate candidates.
• Cultra winning 60-40.
• Obama up 74-23.  Mike Frerichs (Obama) is the runaway leader among delegate candidates.
• Rietz is up 82-17 over Ivy.  Race over.
• McGinty up 74-25 in CB9.
• The Urbana Park referendum is failing narrowly (53-47), but I suspect the more liberal precincts are still out.

9:42 PM:  Note of interest:  with almost none of the rural/GOP precincts reporting, and with some campus precincts in, Dem ballots outnumber Republican ballots about 5-3.  I still think the Dems will break 20,000 ballots, easily setting a record.

9:45 PM: To put those Urbana Park District results in context, the following ten Cunninham precincts are in:  2, 3, 7, 8, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23 and Urbana 4.   I suspect, given the 17 precincts still still out there, that it will end up passing.  I hope not, though.

9:46 PM:  the three contested GOP Congressional Primaries in Illinois appear to be settled enough to say that Balderman, Oberweis and Schock will win those nominations.  Schock is getting over 70 percent in a three-way race so far.

9:49 PM:  Quick thoughts, while there's a break in the returns:

• Big night for Obama.  The Democratic race is going to last perhaps until the convention, with Superdelegates and the disputed delgations from Michigan and Florida potentially deciding factors.  I suspect Obama is going to kick himself later for playing by the rules in Michigan and Florida.
• Big night for McCain.  NY, NJ, CT, a big victory in Illinois, and even super-red OK.
• Big night for Huckabee, winning big in the south.
• Romney has won, so far, just his two home states of MA and UT.  Romney's been saying that it's a two-man race.  Maybe he was right, and the two men are McCain and Huckabee.
• The Urbana Park District referendum is much closer than I thought it would be. There's actually a chance that it will fail.

9:55 PM:  38 precincts reporting in Champaign County:

• 7700 Dem ballots, 4500 GOP.
• McCain 38, Romney 33.
• Cultra up 60-40.
• O'Connor up 67-33
• Obama up 75-22.
• CB6:  Rosales 266, Petrie 201, Jehle 133, Williams 130
• Urbana Park District (12 or 27 reporting: 48 yes, 52 no.

10:03 PM:  I should really be putting the latest updates at the top.  I'll start a new post.