How does this work exactly?

[Bubzer]

She won with 54% reporting in? Huh?

[winter is coming]

1. She's projected as the winner. It happens all the time.

I've seen winners projected on lower percentages than that.

[DebJ]

3. I've often seen a race called once 12% is in, unless certain districts expected to be

heavily for the currently losing candidate have not yet reported.

And actually, unless it is such a scenario as above, the ultimate winner really doesn't seem to change
(though the percentages might) once the 12% reporting is in.

That's just what I've noticed as my face has been glued to the tv time and again for many elections
the last 12 years.

[silvershadow]

2. just over the threshold of 50% to make anything at all after sound believable.

What were the returns from Bernie's upstate enclaves that were speculated about in the past couple of days?