Clinton gets the call
The pattern that established itself early in this primary system continued tonight: Fox News was quickest out of the gate to make a projection, followed by MSNBC, with CNN playing it very cautiously.
Fox declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the Pennsylvania primary roughly 45 minutes after the polls closed at 8 p.m. EDT.
MSNBC followed a few minutes later.
CNN, at 8:54, reiterated that it was holding fire.
Assuming Fox and MSNBC are correct, the margin-watch now begins.
-- Don Frederick
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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