Jim Davis spokesman Josh Earnest was quick to cry foul on the AP, insisting Davis will not concede. "It's far to early to tell," he said. Earnest is going from TV camera to TV camera repeating this message.

At 10:30 p.m., the mood at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay is subdued. People have moved on to general chit chat, stopping to applause when the Alex Sink - Tom Lee results are shown on jumbo monitors.

10:50: Earnest said no call has been made. "We're not going to make a decision until all the votes are counted, or at least until a whole lot more are."