Super Tuesday results coverage

For those interested in the US Presidential Primaries and likely to stay up and watch on Tuesday night / Wednesday morning, CNN Coverage (which most people get, and surely you dont want to wach Fox!) will start at 11pm Tuesday evening with Wolf Blitzer.   

The first results expected are for American Samoa, but with only 3 delegates at stake, the pundits will have a hard time extracting significance.   The results will be rolling in through into Wednesday morning, first states will be those where one candidate has a significant advantage in the exit polls and where this is clearly corroborated by 5% plus of actual results coming in from the state.  

The 'big three' polls close on Wednesday morning in GMT time...
Illinois - 1 am
New York - 2 am
California -  4 am

California will be the crunch, but it might be a while before the results come out as there are reports in the California media of some problems with the voting and counting operation.  Also, around 22% of the electorate will cast absentee ballots that wont be counted until days later, so there may be an even longer wait if the counting is close.

Based on watching all the recent primaries, CNNpolitics.com is the best place to get up to date information throughout the night - the website updates before they update on the TV, and it is ahead of any of the other websites I have found.    For analysis during the night, The Fix blog on WashingtonPost.com is good, as is TPM Election Central

If anyone has any other timings for results etc, or tips for watching, would be interested to hear 
 

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Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#1)

TPM is good for news and Real Clear Politics has good polling data plus excellent links to articles elsewhere.

From what I can see from the polling, Obama is narrowing the gap in California, Colorado, Arizona, Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, and Missouri, and is widening his lead in Illinois and Georgia. Unsurprisingly Clinton is holding her lead in New York and Arkansas. 7 or 8 Feb 5th states have had little polling, but the race is getting closer in national polls, and the momentum in endorsements and fundraising seem to be with Obama.

Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#2)

I generally trust CNN, you can't go wrong with Wolf Blitzer!

Latest polls show Clinton winning in six of the eight biggest states (Illinois and Georgia being the exceptions).

Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#3)

You can't go wrong with Wolf Blitzer?????

 Have you actually seen Crossfire? It's the most overblown political show and never actually says anything!

Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#4)

!! Blitzer's a classic! Ok, he does talk some complete nonsense sometimes, but when it's a choice between him and Fox News, then Blitzer gets my vote!

Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#5)

Wolf is good but by about 2 inthe morning I get sick of his repetition of "best political team on television". Have you seen Lou Dobbs on CNN rant on about immigration? He would seem more at home on Fox.

Re: Super Tuesday results coverage (#6)

Yeh, Lou's mental.