Official Florida Primary Result Page (Bipartisan)

[Mr. Morden]

According to the Green Papers, in 2006, Florida's polls closed at 7pm local time (meaning 7pm Eastern / 6 pm Central in the Eastern timezone part of the state, and 8pm Eastern / 7 pm Central in the Central timezone part of the state).  I thought the same would be happening this time, but I'll see if I can find definitive info.  In any case, the *last* polls in the state will close at 8pm Eastern / 7 pm Central.

[Mr. Morden]

Yeah, here's info from the Miami Herald that says polls are open until 7:

http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/home.asp

So I'm pretty sure they're open until 7pm local time throughout the state.

The networks won't release their exit polls or call a state until after all the polls in the state have closed, but my memory of the 2006 midterms says that a state itself will sometimes start releasing results from a few precincts before the polls have closed in other parts of the state.

[Mr. Morden]

Leaked exit poll results:

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODA5YmUxMTEwMDk1Y2ViMGMzOGFjNDRlOWI4NzU5YTg=

McCain 34.3%
Romney 32.6%
Giuliani 15.3%
Huckabee 12%

From the AP writeup:

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[Mr. Morden]

FYI, according to pollster.com, "Tonight’s exit polls in Florida will include sample of interviews conducted by telephone among early voters, and those results will be weighted with the interviews conducted at polling places today to the best estimate available of absentee ballots as a percentage of all votes cast."

I don't know if these leaked exit poll results include those absentee / early voting numbers or not.

[Mr. Morden]

A handful of votes have come out on the Dem. side:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#FL

Clinton 45%
Obama 25%
Edwards 25%

[Mr. Morden]

And some GOP results too.  Romney leading by 3%, but just a handful of votes out.

[Mr. Morden]

With just a few thousand votes out:

Clinton 53%
Obama 26%
Edwards 17%

McCain 32%
Romney 26%
Huckabee 18%
Giuliani 17%

[Mr. Morden]

Romney just referred to Asia as a country.