What is striking about these figures is just how open both these races still are.   It is almost as if the voters are saying they are not ready yet to make up their minds and are trying to keep their options open for as long as possible.

One of the more annoying habits of elections commentary is ascribing a collective will to the electorate. It would be possible in large caucus, where a consensus might be reached that "well, we want to keep the race open, let's throw this percentage of our votes to that one" or something similar.

But with a secret ballot, no public debate between voters, and indeed that voters only vote once, an electorate doesn't 'decide to give a narrow victory' or whatever.

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