Last night, the Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders supporters were outraged. You've probably already read plentyofstoriesaboutwhatthisallmeans.
Here's another take on how this happened, this one from AP senior vice president and executive editor Kathleen Carroll: "We counted."
AP concluded that Hillary Clinton had enough delegates to clinch the nomination after a painstaking but very straightforward exercise.
We counted.
By Monday evening, 571 superdelegates had told us unequivocally that they intend to vote for Clinton at the convention. Adding that number to the delegates awarded to Clinton in primary and caucus voting to date gave her the number needed to be the presumptive nominee.
That is news, and reporting the news is what we do.
Nothing in that discourages or prevents voters in six states from exercising their right to go to the polls today and cast their ballots.
(Emphasis mine.)