When California moved up its primary to Feb. 5, it hoped to have a role in choosing the presidential nominess. Well, the Golden State is getting its wish.On the Democratic side, Sen. Hillary Clinton has won six states at this hour including the big two: New York and Masschusetts. Sen. [...]

With polls having just closed in nine states, Arizona Sen. John McCain is already the projected winner in New Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut. Mitt Romney is the projected winner in Massachusetts, but he would be in a world of hurt if he couldn't win in his home state. But where [...]

With various media organizations starting to call the results in Eastern and Southern states, the tally so far is Clinton, 3 (Oklahoma, New Jersey, Tennessee); Obama, 2 (Georgia, Illinois).In other words, this could be a long night -- and, as many people predicted, it may not resolve the question of [...]

The polls just closed in Georgia and the networks are already projecting a victory for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary.This is not a surprise. Polls showed Obama with a significant lead in the Peach State, neighbor of South Carolina where Obama won big on Jan. 26. MSNBC is projecting [...]

I'm always amazed at how many people send us election-related letters to the editor on the eve of Election Day. We must have received a dozen, and several more have been e-mailed to us today. (So how exactly are we supposed to get those in today's edition?)The fact is, we [...]

Polls don't close in California until 8 p.m. but voters out West will be hearing returns - and probably a number of declared winners - long before then.With a record 23 states participating in 'Tsunami Tuesday,' here's a chronology of how the day will play out for those on the [...]

As with the most recent Press Democrat poll (see Saturday blog entry), the latest Field Poll also suggests something significant is happening with the Obama campaign in California. Just two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton had a double-digit lead. The latest poll shows Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical dead [...]

OK. So we were wrong.On Sunday, we opined in an editorial entitled "Super Sunday," that Californians were more excited about Tsunami Tuesday then Super Bowl Sunday because "both the Democratic and Republican races are still competitive -- possibly more so than today's match-up between the New England Patriots and the [...]

"I regret that John Edwards left the race. I liked him a lot and hope that he has some influence on the party platform. I like both Clinton and Obama but as the campaign has continued I find Obama more compelling and more able to give us a new lease [...]

As we noted in today's editorial, more than 300 people responded to our most recent online survey of Press Democrat letter writers and readers. Here are the results:Likely Democratic voters support Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton 64 percent to 22 percent.Among likely Republican voters, Sen. John McCain is [...]