Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #2

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Results: AK, GA, ID, MA, ND, OH, OK, TN, VT, VA

4:41 PM PT (David Nir): To follow the Ohio congressional results, you can use the AP's page.

4:44 PM PT (David Nir): The Ohio Secretary of State also has a nice results page which you can customize to only show you the races you want. No numbers as yet, though.

4:52 PM PT (David Nir): Cuyahoga County, which only accounts for a part of OH-09, has some early results on its site—but to be very clear, this only covers part of the district. Kucinich leads, but he's expected to lead here, as it's his home turf.

4:52 PM PT: As an aside, here's the money picture through the last reporting period:

4:52 PM PT (David Nir): A new batch of Ohio exit polls just came out, and they show a tighter race: 38 Romney, 36.5 Santo, Newt 12, Paul 11.5.

4:55 PM PT: Ron Paul already did his broken-record spiel a few minutes ago. It was an actually crafty move -- the networks are desperate for material this early in the evening, so much so that they're willing to give every night's last-place loser some airtime.

4:55 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Al Sharpton on the GOP candidates: "They all have baggage. It's just that Mitt Romney has enough money to pay bellhops to carry his."

5:01 PM PT (David Nir): Polls have now closed in MA, TN, and OK. Big shocker: MA's been called for Mitt.

5:02 PM PT (David Nir): The Tennessee exit polls back out to Santorum 35, Romney 28, Gingrich 23, Paul 12. That's Rick's first good news of the night, but he was expected to win here.

5:04 PM PT (David Nir): And the Oklahoma exit polls back out to Santorum 38, Romney 26, Gingrich 24, Paul 11. Could Newt finish 2nd?

5:05 PM PT (David Nir): The very first trickle of results is showing up on the AP's site for the OH-02 Republican primary, featuring of course Mean Jean Schmidt, who seems to have a rocky road to renomination every cycle.

To my friends denying GOP is a white party: 96% of Ohio voters today were white. ONE percent black.
— @joanwalsh via web

5:13 PM PT: With Santorum likely winning Tennessee and Oklahoma, he'll likely still have juice to continue. But Ohio would solidify his rationale for carrying on.

As for Gingrich, who gives a shit that he won Georgia. At this point, his sugar daddy's cash is being spent on behalf of Romney -- to keep the not-Mitt-Romney vote split.

5:13 PM PT (David Nir): In case anyone cares, the MA exit polls back out to Romney 70, Santorum 12, Paul 9, Newt 4.

Kaptur ahead of Kucinich 96.4%-2.3% among 1st 3,980 votes counted in Lucas Co (Toledo)
— @greggiroux via web

This is not looking like the Romney blow-out it needs to be.
— @davidfrum via TweetDeck

5:18 PM PT (David Jarman): Moral of the story if you're Dennis Kucinich? Don't diss Toledo.

5:20 PM PT (David Nir): The first results are coming in in OH-03, and it's as tight as the polling showed: Mary Jo Kilroy is up 37-35 over Joyce Beatty in the Dem primary.

5:22 PM PT (David Jarman): Remember that in Ohio, most of the delegates are allocated to the winner of each congressional district, so that's where some of our focus needs to go. So far, we have results reported in 11 of the state's 16 (newly-drawn) districts, and Mitt Romney is up in 9 of those (though a few are paper-thin leads). Santorum's only CDs that he's winning right now are OH-04, in the state's rural northwestern areas, and OH-07, in the Appalachian southeast.

5:27 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): More liveblogging here.