Results: AK, GA, ID, MA, ND, OH, OK, TN, VT, VA
7:17 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Mitt Romney's Super PAC spent $7.4 million over the past two weeks. Rick Santorum's $1.8 million. (Source.)
7:18 PM PT (David Nir): In OH-03 (D), with 50% reporting, Joyce Beatty is holding on to a 38-35 lead over Mary Jo Kilroy. Incidentally, PPP took an internal recently for Beatty that had the race at 35-34 Kilroy. Certainly captured how tight the race is!
7:21 PM PT (David Nir): 62% now reporting in Ohio, and Santorum is up 38-36 over Romney. But Clermont County, in the Cincy `burbs, still has only reported the early vote.
7:22 PM PT (David Nir): Unsurprisingly, Mitt Romney is out to a comical early lead in Idaho, which is the second most-heavily Mormon state in the nation, at about 27% of the population.
7:29 PM PT (Jed Lewison): It's an epic disaster if Romney loses Ohio. But even if he pulls it out—which is certainly a plausible scenario—tonight is still a bad night for his image. Sure, he might pull out more delegates. But people out east are already going to bed, and the image of Mitt Romney in their heads is the image of a loser. And when they wake up they'd find out that although he won, it was the narrowest of victories, despite the fact that he outspent Rick Santorum by millions.
7:34 PM PT (Steve Singiser): Looking at those county websites, we are now at 64 percent reporting in OH-09. Both Cuyahoga (Dennis Kucinich's home base) and Lucas (Marcy Kaptur's home base) are reporting more than half of their precincts. And Kaptur's base is more consolidated than Kucinich's. The net result is that Kaptur now leads by double digits (54-42). And … for those who have been on pins and needles … Joe the Plumber is still losing to Steven Kraus, but the margin has tightened quite a bit (51-49).