CNN PROJECTS BARACK OBAMA HAS WON MINNESOTA!
With just over 50% in, 100,000 people participated in the DFL Caucus tonight. This is ALREADY a record.Meanwhile, the Republicans have a third in and 25,000 votes. That is a VERY bad sign for the MN GOP.
UPDATE 63% in:
Obama 67%
Clinton 32%
Obama still leads in all CDs. We move one delegate over to Obama, which gives him a 45 to 27 lead in the MN Publius delegate projection.
UPDATE 48% in:
Obama 65%
Clinton 33%
Obama still leads in all Congressional Districts. Our pledged delegate projection is still 44 to 28. Add in superdelegates and you get a 48 to 31 spread in Minnesota with 7 superdelegates still uncommitted.
UPDATE: 34% in:
Obama 64%
Clinton 34%
Obama still leads in all Congressional Districts, but shifting numbers have caused him to shed some delegates in our projection. If these numbers held, he would win 44 delegates to 28for Clinton.
UPDATE: 20% in:
Obama 65%
Clinton 34%
Obama is now leading in ALL congressional districts. If these numbers hold up, Obama will win 47 of Minnesota’s 72 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 25. We will update these delegate numbers as results come in.
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15% in:
Obama 65%
Clinton 33%
So far, Obama has large leads in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 8th CDs. No results from the 2nd or the 7th. The 6th is pretty even.
Matt adds:
Sean Adds: At my precinct we had 563 votes. 476 for Obama! 81 for Hillary. Vast majority of delegates to state convention Franken supporters.
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Turnout in my caucus site in Olmsted county (1st CD) was three times that of 2004.
Obama 2:1 in Olmsted.
Insanity. Almost a 2 mile line to get into the middle school parking lot — a 45 minute wait. Packed rooms. Never seen it like this before. Obama over Clinton by almost a 4:1 ratio.
Any reports on the Senate race?
Looking at the numbers right now. I think 2004 caucuses held somewhere around 50,000 caucus-goers. We are at only 40% of the precincts reporting, and have far surpassed that. Turnout is INSANE tonight.
St Peter: Obama 2:1
ABSURD turnout.
I’m seeing numbers like 80,000 with 46% in for the Democratic candidates. Haven’t seen the GOP numbers yet.
As lojasmo said, the Olmsted County caucus site was packed. They were calling in the police to direct traffic, but the traffic was still jammed all around.
great news, good job fellow Minnesotans.
My district (SD 62 W2 P2) went 6:1 for obama. Of the ~2200 voters in the district, 780 of them were at the caucus. Crazy.
For the Sentate, franken got 32%, Jack Nelson-Palmayer 55%, and the rest split between undecided and Ciresi.. With those results I should note that Jack lives in the precinct, came and spoke at the caucus, and the precinct is pretty much the bluest in the state (Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis).
Was also at 62 12-1 and Obama 70%, Clinton 27%, rest 3%.
Franken outnumbered JNP but not by much, maybe 60/40. Ciresi almost nothing…
Obama over Clinton in my Brooklyn Park precinct 110 to 44!!!
20,000 GOP caucusers with 46% counted
4 to 1 DFL participants vs GOP. This bodes very ill for the GOP party in MN. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Up in Andover tonight (one of the more Republican cities in the northern suburbs), we DFLers met at the High School. Just before 8:00, SD 49 Chair Bill Usher came in and told us we still had people lined up outside of the school, and our voting would be extended as late as 9:00. We finally counted ballots around 8:30, and they announced that after attracting about 250 people throughout the north Coon Rapids/Andover caucuses in 2006, we had over 2000 participants tonight! In Precinct 7, I believe we had 11 participants in 2006. We had 87 votes cast tonight, and at about 8:00 there were 46 of us crowded into a Social Studies classroom that only seated about 30.
Oh yeah. We voted 49 Obama and 38 Clinton tonight! Wes
I laughed out loud watching the local news reporting from a Republican caucus where the caucus worker they interviewed was crowing about their great turnout. My immediate thought was how great can it be - you all fit in one room. Maybe their turnout is higher than usual but NOTHING compared to the Dems.
Como Park was INSANE. My first caucus since I moved across the river, but judging from how STUNNED all the poor volunteers looked as they tried to direct the massive throngs, turnout was way the hell up.
And damn. Obama’s not pulling a clean sweep, certainly, but he’s doing a helluva lot better than anyone was projecting. Delaware?!? KANSAS?!? IDAHO?!? And wasn’t Alabama supposed to be a “tough battleground”?!?
Grrr…not liking the early Cali numbers, though…