Pre-Results Thread

Vermont (15 delegates): polls close 7 pm ET.

Ohio (141 delegates): polls close 7:30 pm ET.

Rhode Island (21 delegates): polls close 9 pm ET.

Texas (193 delegates): polls close 9 pm ET

Figures that the least suspenseful result will come the soonest.

Buckeye State Blog is reporting that some major flooding throughout Ohio has led the SoS to authorize voters in certain counties to vote provisionally at their local Board of Elections. Looking at where the worst of the weather is, BSB suspects a suppressed turnout in those areas probably favors Obama.

Did you vote today? What's the buzz on the ground where you are?

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The Expectations Game

Marc Ambinder plays it with the Clinton and Obama teams.

The Obama campaign expects to net seven or eight delegates out of the night from winning Vermont... they expect, delegate-wise, RI and Ohio will tie, and Texas, because of the caucus, will be a wash.

The Clinton campaign, having recieved leaked exit polls showing slim leads in both Texas and Ohio, is already challenging, in the press, the aggressiveness of Obama's caucus operation but is generally happy with early reports that turnout in Texas is high.

It's increasingly looking like there isn't going to be an overwhelming winner tonight -- a situation that doesn't really help Hillary Clinton get any closer to chipping away at Barack Obama's growing delegate lead (Tom Brokaw reports that there may be another 50 new superdelegates coming Obama's way this week), but might help her make the argument that she is justified in remaining in this race. Hopefully we'll be getting a view of those early exits, though, and if and when we do we'll pass them on to you.

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