Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary.
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5:24 PM PT:
5:27 PM PT (David Jarman): We're finally seeing a lot of votes from Duval County (Jacksonville), which had been previously silent, and it's pretty close there: Romney 41, Gingrich 39. (Again, Gingrich does better the closer you get to Georgia.) That batch of votes seems to sink Romney a little further away from the outright 50% mark; he's leading Newt 47-31 statewide now, with 58% reporting according to the AP.
5:28 PM PT:
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— @newtgingrich via web
I thought he had Sheldon Adelson on speed dial.
5:29 PM PT: Romney up. So no Gingrich concession?
5:31 PM PT (David Jarman): Mitt may yet hit the 50% mark overall: nearly one-quarter of all the outstanding votes left are in Miami-Dade County, where only 154 of 798 precincts have reported yet (assuming that it isn't riddled with empty precincts). That's Romney's best county at this point, where he's pulling in 63% to Newt's 25%.
5:32 PM PT:
A teleprompter was set up earlier tonight for Mitt Romney's acceptance speech. #FLPrimary
— @ProducerMatthew via web
5:34 PM PT: Romney: We're united as a party while we beat the shit out of each other with $17 million in negative ads.
5:38 PM PT:
Mitt has that disease where he can't remember anything that happened before 2009. What's that called? Ah, Bushitis.
— @HunterDK via TweetDeck
5:38 PM PT: Romney: Obama wants to send your money to his friends. Instead of me.
5:39 PM PT:
5:40 PM PT:
To be fair, Mitt Romney and Mitt Romney have very different visions of America.
— @pandagon via web
5:41 PM PT: Mitt's speech is a case study in building straw men. "Obama wants to eat kittens, ALIVE! I'd rather see them play with yarn."
5:44 PM PT: Obama is making America "the worst of what Europe has become" says the guy who had his money in Swiss banks. And he really didn't have a problem with Europe when he hid there during the Vietnam War.
5:47 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): The liveblogging continues in the next thread.