WOW...13% in and Hillary is smashing Bernie by over 25 points in California

[Cali_Democrat]

YOWZA!

[LexVegas]

1. Dolores Huerta karma. nt

[workinclasszero]

38. YES!!

[JimDandy]

39. Ridiculous. The first votes counts are absentee ballots that were processed and counted starting Tue

Hillary's largest group of supporters are the elderly who consistently vote absentee. Bernie's are the youth. They consistently are election day voters. Clinton's engineering of that announcement was designed to depress election day turnout as it usually heavily favors Bernie.

It appears from reports on the ground, Clinton's crass tactic may have had effect. We'll know soon.

Certainly nothing to do with Dolores Huerta, who publicly and wrongly maligned SBS supporters at their own Nevada caucus location. She was an out-of-state guest who treated her hosts poorly.

[msongs]

2. california SOS only shows 7% in as does NYT

[R B Garr]

3. Just heard larger than expected margin for mail-in voting.

Awesome!

[MohRokTah]

4. This is all early voting results

There are about 5,000,000 early ballots to count and they are some of the first reported.

Could still tighten up.

[rbrnmw]

5. Oh please give me a link if you can?

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Saw it on CNN

[rbrnmw]

17. Oh thanks

[Metric System]

6. But a little birdie told me Secretary Clinton is getting very nervous about California

[democrattotheend]

26. She obviously was

Otherwise, do you think she would have passed up the opportunity to seal the nomination with a win in California, following in the footsteps of her husband and Robert Kennedy?

[Adrahil]

7. Careful.... that's just the early vote so far.

Clinton was expected to do well there (though maybe not THIS well). It will tighten up.

[itsrobert]

8. The South, it doesn't count

oh wait, Somebody get Bernie a map.

[cynatnite]

9. MSNBC said that it's because they're counting mail-in ballots first...

That spread will narrow quite a bit.

[Jitter65]

11. What county or area is Silicon Valley? nt

[KingFlorez]

16. Santa Clara County

With spillover into San Mateo County.

[Zorro]

18. Santa Clara

[uponit7771]

12. Yeap, HRC wins diverse states .... that's progressive

[KingFlorez]

13. Have to see what Los Angeles County looks like

Alameda, San Fransisco and Marin are also ones to watch. Those could shift things dramatically.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. Ya....LA county will determine how close this really is....

[TomJulie]

14. She's on the way to a MASSIVE landslide!!

Time for a cold one to celebrate!!!

[laserhaas]

15. Winder why

[Cali_Democrat]

21. Because more people are voting for her...

[Stallion]

20. Still Winning Wyoming Too with 34% In

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[Barack_America]

31. ? Wyoming voted in April.

[Stallion]

34. Sorry Montana

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[brooklynite]

22. NBC saying this is the early vote tally...

Sanders expected to do better in the live vote count, HOWEVER NBC reporting early vote strong than expected for Clinton.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Yes, early vote was supposed to be around 54-46 Clinton, not 63-36

[spooky3]

23. Not to rain on parades, but guys, the early count is of the mail-in votes, which are heavily age 55+

Cohn at NYT and others at 538 and MSNBC say we will likely not know the full results tonight - Cal voters can mail in votes today and if postmarked, they will be counted as late as Friday.

The first group of (early mailed-in) votes is expected to be strongly pro-Hillary. Then the in-person votes today will be counted, which will likely be more strongly pro-Sanders. The third group, late mailed-in votes, could go either way.

[metroins]

27. Depends on spread

10 points can tighten. We're talking 26 points, that's a big spread.

[spooky3]

29. yes, but it is only 4% of the vote

Cohn, 538, and some folks at MSNBC are pretty careful about numbers, so I think it's wise to be cautious.

[metroins]

30. Cnn shows 30% reporting

I don't mind being cautious at all.

I was wrong about MI and some other state (I forget which one) because of Early Voting.

It's a large spread in CA right now.

[spooky3]

32. Interesting - NYT is up now only to 5%

[metroins]

33. I'd trust NYT

Over CNN live TV.

Live TV does things for ratings and I trust NYT more.

[spooky3]

35. here's a link if you don't have it:

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results?version=meter+at+0&module=meter-Links&pgtype=Multimedia&con

[bravenak]

24. Confederacy

[LenaBaby61]

36. Hillary's leading by a LOT in....

Mail in ballots thus far 26%

Bernie has to REALLY rally if he's gonna make up some ground with Hillary's mail in ballots...

He's gonna have to rally to get 1 million votes. He may make it to 1 million, but it's gonna be tough.

[Stallion]

37. I'd be Following Benchmark

I think they've been the best in the business this entire primary season. They had Clinton winning by 8 or 9. I'm sure the AP call might interfere with their projection but they nailed the New Jersey rout