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Wow. That caught me offguard. it’s only 6:30 and CNN is already calling Vermont for McCain and Obama.

10:51- The ever-gracious Howard Dean has issued the following congratulatory noteto John McCain:

“John McCain is out of touch with the issues facing Americans each day. Instead of offering solutions to the high cost of health care, help for the middle class or ideas to create jobs, McCain offers 100 years in Iraq and more of the same Bush budgets that have heaped debt onto our children and damaged our economy. Instead of ending the influence of lobbyists in Washington, he’s hired them to run his campaign. The closer voters look at the real McCain record, the more they will realize he cannot be trusted to deliver the change America wants.”

10:44- CNN.com is reporting Hillary’s lead in Texas at 47,000+.

10:40- Hillary’s lead is back to 30,000.

10:31- MOMENT OF THE NIGHT came with Karl Rove saying he’d been ordered back to the pit. When Doug Schoen asks if he’ll apologize for his earlier remarks, Rove says “No, I was ordered back here because I was intemperate.”

10:17- Hillary’s lead is now down to 12,000+ in Texas. The Architect is saying that Obama might win most of the delegates in Texas but then says that “that’s a heckuva message for Obama to tout”, saying that ‘yeah we lost the popular vote but we won more delegates.’

10:05- There’s another shift happening in Texas. Hillary’s lead is now down to only 754,231 to 741,992. This topsy-turvy primary is heading for another change of direction. It’s gonna be a late night and then some.

10:00- Hillary has now been declared the winner in Ohio. CNN.com is showing Hillary with a 58-40 percent lead with 56 percent of the vote in.

9:56- Texas website is showing Hillary Obama leading 661,515 to 606,892.

9:53- Doug Schoen is now talking nonsense, saying that McCain should pick Joe Lieberman because “it would be a compelling pick.” Karl Rove says that “that’s a pipe dream.”

9:50- The Texas SecState website is showing Hillary’s lead widening. Hillary now leads Obama 640,070 to 592,004.

9:35- Doug Schoen is talking about how the late deciders in Texas are moving in Hillary’s direction. This indicates that my theory that things were shifting against Obama. This means that it’s much more likely that we won’t know who the Democratic nominee is for quite some time.

9:15- According to the Texas SecState’s website, Hillary has 554,000+ votes to Obama’s 539,355. Michael Steele, appearing on FNC’s Stategy Room on the internet, says that this is likely to be a good night for Hillary. He said that Hillary’s coalition has been re-assembled.

9:07- Karl Rove reports that the Texas Secretary of State is showing Hillary has moved ahead of Obama.

8:35- Sen. McCain will travel to the White House tomorrow to get President Bush’s endorsement.

8:30- CNN is projecting Hillary as the winner in Rhode Island. Details to follow.

8:12- CNN is projecting John McCain as the GOP presidential nominee.

Sen. John McCain will win Texas and become the Republican presidential nominee, CNN projects.

McCain swept all four contests in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, giving him the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.

McCain will travel to the White House to be endorsed by President Bush as early as Wednesday, sources tell CNN.

Now starts Sen. McCain’s general election campaign, a time in which he’ll define Barack Obama as too inexperienced to entrust the White House to in a time of war. Sen. McCain doesn’t need to define Hillary because she’s defined herself over the last 15 years.

I strongly suspect that Hillary will stay in until the Convention but that Obama will win the nomination.

7:15- A judge has ordered that several polling places in Cuyahoga County remain open until 9:00 pm ET. Here’s a better timeline of the events leading to the ruling:

8:19 p.m. The number of precincts being kept open is 15. The exact locations have not been released, yet.

8:12 p.m. A Cuyahoga County judge has granted a motion filed by the Obama campaign to keep some polling stations in Cuyahoga County open until 9 p.m. The exact locations being kept open late have not been specified, yet.

8:02 p.m. The Cuyahoga BOE has suspended the counting of all ballots pending the outcome of the Obama campaign’s motion

7:58 p.m. The Obama campaign has gone before a judge to try and get an order to have the polls remain open in Cuyahoga County until 9 p.m. The campaign claims there was a shortage of Democratic ballots that may have left some voters without the chance to vote. A higher number than expected number of Republican voters showed up at the polls Tuesday asking to switch parties and receive a Democratic ballot. A judge in Sandusky County already approved a similar measure requested by Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. Brunner says there was a lack of Democratic ballots in that county due to the number of voters switching parties.

4:45 p.m. Cuyahoga County BOE Director, Jane Platten, held a news conference detailing how the situation was going so far. Overall, it seems the voting has gone smoothly with few problems reported.

6:47- RCP is linking to a CNN post showing Hillary with a slim lead in Ohio exit polling. According to my trusty calulator, Hillary is getting 51.2 percent of the exit polling vote thus far in Ohio.

6:40- CNN is calling Ohio for McCain:

Sen. John McCain will pick up his second win of the night with Ohio, CNN projects, but the Democratic race there is too close to call.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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