If it's Tuesday, there must be election returns, right? Yep, as of 5:45 pm Pacific time, with 87% of the votes counted in Kentucky, Clinton leads Sanders by 2816 votes, out of a total of 362,596 reported.
Clinton isn't all that popular among Democrats, and they swear she'll be nominated. My eyeball says they are separated by less than 1%. This in a state her husband carried twice, not impressive.
Seven minutes later ... now 92% have been reported, Clinton has 190,698 to Sanders 190,572, they are separated by 126 votes. That looks like maybe 0.1% difference, a for-sure recount. She cannot close the deal.
Polls in Oregon, where both parties are holding primaries, haven't closed yet.
At 6:07 Clinton's lead has opened back up to 1012 votes, with 95% reporting.
At 6:20 Clinton's lead has opened to 2500 with 98% reporting. RealClearPolitics has them separated by 0.6%.
At 9:20 p.m. Kentucky is still too close to call for either Clinton or Sanders, they are less than 2000 votes apart with Clinton in a slight lead. RealClearPolitics has them each taking 27 delegates.
Oregon has been called for Sanders on the Dem. side, and for Trump on the GOP side. Sanders gets 28 delegates to Clinton's 24, Trump gets 17 while Kasich and Cruz each get 3.
