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I'm Carrie Dan. It is Super Tuesday. Voters are voting. Who knows what might happen, it's all very exciting.
In California alone, there are 415 pledge delegates at stake. So everybody, get ready to hold please. When it comes to some of the voting today, we're all just going to have to hurry up and wait. That's because yes, voters will be voting in 14 states plus American Samoa today.
And to be fair, we probably will have a pretty good picture early in the night of how different candidates are doing in different states. But at the end of the day, this is a game about delegates, and we are not going to have all of those figured out tonight. The number one reason for that is the seat of California. Do not expect the state's 400 plus delegates to be sorted out before you go to bed tonight, or before you wake up on say Friday.
I mean, I hope that you wake up between tonight and Friday, but what I mean is don't hold your breath. That's because a big chunk of California's vote is by mail. Californians are allowed to put those ballots in the mail as late as today, as long as the ballot is postmarked with today's date, it counts. So officials aren't even going to have the vote in and already to be counted until a few days after Tuesday night.
Add to that provisional ballots for people who register at the polls, and we could be in for a long wait. In fact, county officials have a whole month to give an official tally of the Super Tuesday vote in California. Also, keep in mind that the returns that you do see in California might be a little uneven, more early vote than day of or late deciders when you're watching coverage tonight. So please keep in mind that what looks like the delegate breakdown in California when you go to bed tonight is likely to change significantly by the time the whole vote is counted.
It may take a while to get a full delegate count in one other delegate-rich state, the state of Texas. That's where 228 delegates are up for grabs, and the reason that it might take a little bit longer is that Texas allocates their delegates in a funky way, because Texas, you know, Texans just want to be a little different, you know. They allocate their delegates by state Senate district rather than by US congressional district, which pretty much everyone else does. That means it could be a bit slower for all the networks and number crunchers to figure out who gets how many delegates.
And of course, there are results coming in from a dozen other states, so just keep in mind it might be slow going in some of those places. So, in short, on the biggest and most thrilling day of the 2020 election cycle to date, here I am telling you to be patient. Take a breath. Relax.
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