10:32: Here’s an updated delegate count from the AP, via the New York Times.

9:29: I’m losing power. And energy. I’m going to sign off for a bit, and check back in at home with some final results for the evening.

9:20: NPR has a nice chart that’s a decent snapshot of right now:

9:18: According to the NYT’s stats, Obama just pulled ahead by a hair in Missouri, with 98% reporting.

Barack Obama 387,064 48.8
Hillary Rodham Clinton 383,853 48.4

9:12: “Hillary Clinton is the projected winner of California,” says an old dude on NBC. So is McCain.

9:09: New York Times: “A.P. Projects Wins for Clinton in Arizona and McCain in Missouri; The Times Calls Georgia for Huckabee”

9:07: A nice roundup from CNN… “CNN projects GOP’s McCain as winning AZ, OK, NY, DE, NJ, CT, IL; Romney projected to win MT, MN, ND, UT, MA, CO; Huckabee to take AL, AR, WVA, GA, TN”

9:05: CNN says Montana is McCain’s. And still too close to call in California.

8:57: Obama’s still talking. The crowd here is pretty rapt.

“When I’m president we’ll do away with the politics of fear,” he says, saying 9/11 will be an opportunity to unite Americans, along with climate change and poverty, genocide and disease. (I can’t wait to unite over genocide!)

“It will require a struggle and it will require a sacrifice… and that is why we require all the help we can get,” he says. There are people in America, he says, who are undecided, “but want change.” Has anyone patented an Obama drinking game centered on the word “change” yet?

“Together, ordinary people can still do extraordinary things in the United States of America,” he says.

8:45: Colorado and Idaho have been called for Obama, who’s on the big screen.

“There’s one thing that we don’t need the final results to know. Our time has come,” he says. “Our time has come. Our moment is real. And change is coming to America.”

“A house divided cannot stand. We are more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and will be the United States of America.”

“In this election, at this moment, you are standing up to say not this time, not this year, the stakes are too high… to play the same Washington game with the same Washington players, and expect a different result.”

Utah has been called for Obama. Missouri is 49-48 Clinton with 92 percent reporting. Clinton is ahead in Arizona, 51-41 with 58 percent reporting. We’re waiting on California and Alaska.

8:36: Council candidates Ed Garren and Nick Fish, both going after Erik Sten’s seat, just introduced themselves, after a few legislative candidates and the aforementioned council candidates.

Kate Brown’s doing her “Vote for Kate. In 2008. For Secretary of State” thing. Tamara DeRidder, also running for Sten’s seat, just introduced herself. Both Attorney General candidates—John Kroger and Greg Macpherson—said hello. Kroger, whose stickers are littering this room’s lapels, got a much larger cheer.

8:36: With 10 percent reporting, Clinton has 55% of California to Obama’s 33%, says CNN.

8:33: Here, the band has signed off with a good night, and the wineries are packing up their bottles. Someone on stage has asked the candidates in the room to head up on stage—I think it’s time for straw poll results.

The New York Times has a delegate tally, courtesy of the AP. I’d cautioned that this is very preliminary. Some states’ delegate split won’t be more solid until the morning.

Clinton — 410
Obama — 331
2,025 Needed

McCain — 349
Romney — 95
Huckabee — 123
1,191 Needed

8:31: Who’s Senate candidate Steve Novick backing, now that his guy Edwards has dropped out? He’s not sure, he says. But he did offer this: “I’m sure they’d both disappoint me. But one would disappoint me in new ways.” Sounds like a tepid leaning toward Obama.

8:30: Fritz has offered to grab me a lemon bar or piece of cheesecake. I didn’t realize dessert was out. “If you’ve got lemon bars, there’s the party, right there,” Fritz says. Agreed.

8:27: With 3 percent reporting, California tightened up slightly—it's Clinton's 53 to Obama's 34, says CNN.

8:17: "Romney wins GOP contests in Minn., N. Dak., NBC projects" With similarly small counts in California, McCain is ahead.

8:13: With a scant 1 percent reporting in California, CNN says Clinton has 57 percent and Obama 33 percent.

8:12: Bradbury is soliciting $1,000 contributions to the Democratic Party of Oregon. Meanwhile, CNN projects Romney the winner in N. Dakota caucuses.

8:11: Amanda Fritz just walked by. Three candidates in that city council race—Fritz, John Branam, and Charles Lewis—are here, dressed to impress, and circulating the room.

8:06: Bradbury says "Thank you all so much. I have to say, I am so proud tonight to be a Democrat. We have several candidates that lots of people are very excited about. All of those candidates are incredible, and we are really lucky!"

"The reason I'm standing here tonight is because I want every one of you to recognize that there's a very important role that the Democratic Party of Oregon plays in electing the next Democratic President, in electing a new Democratic U.S. Senator, in making sure that Democrats control our Congressional representation, in making sure that all of our statewide offices continue to be held by Democrats, and making sure that the house of representatives in Salem and the state senate in Salem remain in Democratic hands," Bradbury says. "We can call feel really good about where we are today. And to help all of you celebrate, you should know that there's free wine in the back of the room. Wonderful, wonderful Oregon wine."

8:05: "I know you want to look at the screens," says a woman who just shushed the entire crowd and demanded their attention. She's shushing again (and explains that she used to be a teacher). Apparently she has something important to say.

She introducing Secretary of State Bill Bradbury. Okay, that was worth shushing for.

8:03: "California too close to call," says MSNBC.

7:57: Obama gets Minnesota. Someone has turned up the volume on the big screen TV, to check out Clinton's speech in NY. She's saying something about being "destined for progress together."

Here at the party, staffers are hiding in a back room, tallying up a straw poll with the crowds' favorite for president, Oregon's Senator, Secretary of State, and Attorney General.

7:28: Here's what's left. We need officials calls on Arizona and Utah on the D side, then Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho and New Mexico will all be reporting quite late tonight—somewhere between 9 and 10 our time.

Time for more wine, if only to escape the "what are you doing??" questions. (I think I need to get one of those "I'm Blogging This" t-shirts.)

7:26: Arizona and Utah are leaning toward Clinton, but haven't been called yet.

7:22: Seriously? The fascination with my being online? A KATU cameraman is now FILMING ME. "We saw you're on the internet. Thought it was cool," says the reporter. Um. Film at 11?

7:20: CNN projects North Dakota and Kansas for Obama. NBC confirms Kansas.

7:09: Obama gets Utah and North Dakota, I just saw on MSNBC. But that line has disappeared. Obama gets North Dakota says CNN, which also calls Oklahoma for McCain.

Also, middle aged women are fascinated with the fact that I'm leaning against a pillar, typing. And text messaging. Several have leaned in to ask what I'm doing.

7:05: We're waiting on Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and Utah. Romney scores Utah, the rest are too close to call or too early.

Clinton reportedly gets New Jersey. A tipsy and/or nutty woman in line for beer and wine behind me moaned that Clinton was cleaning up. Was she a Clinton supporter, I asked her? Nope, Edwards was her guy. She didn't look too happy, and launched into a spiel about how Clinton and Obama's voting records were similar and different. I ran away.

6:20: I'm at the Democrats' party at the Tiffany Center, where there's a woman hawking the raffle items (like a trip to the convention, or a videotaped birthday greeting from Sen. Ron Wyden). People are noshing on platters of taquitos, and digging into chafing dishes of sliced bratwurst. The wifi network is called "DonkeyStableOpen." Does that mean stable, as in livestock?

On the big screen, Clinton has taken Massachusetts, Tennessee and New York, and Obama picked up Illinois, while "on Republican side, CNN projects McCain as winner in New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware and New Jersey; Romney takes Massachusetts." We're 35 minutes away from polls closing in Utah and North Dakota.

Did I mention there's free flowing wine here? I'm off to sample some.

5:37: Huckabee, Clinton win in Arkansas, NBC projects