give it up

It's much too early to try and make sense of yesterday's wintery mix but we will note that some news organizations should give up calling the outcome of elections before all the results are in. AP called the Missouri Primary for Hillary Rodham Clinton last night, a result that was quickly repeated by NPR, and all of the major networks. A google search about 11 pm resulted in no less than 20 news articles (most from television stations) reporting that HRC had won. Except that she did not.

With 3371 of 3371 precints reporting the actual vote tallies are as follows:
CANDIDATE votes PERCENT OF VOTE
Clinton, Hillary 395,235 48.0%
Obama, Barack 405,591 49.2%
Edwards, John 16,743 2.0%
Spelbring, Ralph 224 .0%
Kucinich, Dennis 820 .1%
Richardson, Bill 690 .1%
Biden, Joe 629 .1%
Dodd, Christopher 249 .0%
Gravel, Mike 438 .1%
UNCOMMITTED 3,135 .4%

In what may portend bad news for the Republicans in November, more than 200,000 votes were cast on the Democratic side than on the Republican side.

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official missouri election results