How The March 22 Primary Elections Went Down

According to our delegate tracker, Sanders needs about 58 percent of the delegates from here on out to overtake Clinton in the pledged delegate count. Some of tonight’s results might give Bernie backers false hope: He could easily reach that share of the vote in Idaho and Utah. But as our scorecard indicates, wins of that magnitude won’t help Sanders meaningfully chip away at Clinton’s 300-pledged delegate lead. And, as Nate has noted, Arizona could easily negate Sanders delegate leads out of Idaho and Utah.

I’m not going to second guess the networks calling races, but one wonders about the ethics of calling a race when people are still standing in line to vote, as they are in Arizona.

We’re starting to see some unofficial results being reported from people on the ground in Utah. If those reports are at all representative of how the vote count will go — a big if — Cruz will end up easily over 50 percent and take all 40 delegates. We’ll have to wait and see if these reports are outliers, though.