I’m trying to remember the last time a primary winner was called exactly at the time the polls closed.
Does anyone recall?
Don’t know, but no candidate has won the nomination without winning South Carolina. Newt just won there, thanks to the level headed, true conservative South Carolinians. Now onto the rest of the story.
I’d guess the record for a call based on actual sampling of the vote would be CBS in the ‘64 California primary. We had an employee at every polling place in the state, and they were armed with dimes and given orders to phone in after the first ten ballots were counted, then again at the end. The call was made within thirty minutes.