Live Election Night Updates

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

6:36 pm: Senator Barack Obama doing well in exit polls, competitive with white males. Obama has taken Illinois, Georgia, and Alabama, all expected. He also won in Delaware, which was considered a battleground state. Clinton has won New York, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, none of which are a surprise. She has also won Massachusetts, a state that Obama had hoped to pick up, following the Kennedy endorsements and the support of Governor Deval Patrick.

On the Republican race: not a great night for Governor Mitt Romney so far. He's won only his home state Massachusetts, but Senator John McCain has picked up Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, and New Jersey. Governor Mike Huckabee has more than Romney, with West Virginia and his home state Arkansas going his way. In West Virginia McCain supporting caucus attendees through their support to Huckabee to rob Romney of a victory.

In California, Los Angeles county Decline-to-State disenfranchisement is feared by the California Democratic Party, Courage Campaign, Progressive Blogs, and Senator Barack Obama, who expects to pick up a majority of DTS voters. There are also DTS problems reported in the Bay Area. The Clinton campaign meanwhile considers these complaints to be a last minute tactic by the Obama camp to provide a hedge in case they lose. There is also concern of Green Party members being allowed to vote in the Democratic Primary in Berkeley.