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The race in Iowa between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is going down to the wire. And while the traditional bellweathers, such as the Associated Press, had not yet called the race as of 12:45 a.m., the Wall Street Journal quietly published a story and tweet saying Clinton had won, before quickly removing the article.

The article, titled "Hillary Clinton wins Iowa caucus by slim margin over Bernie Sanders" was published at 11:37 p.m. and an accompanying tweet went out saying, "Hillary Clinton ekes out narrow victory over Bernie Sanders to win Iowa caucus."

But the tweet was removed, and the story was changed.

The original URL for the story now reads "Clinton, Sanders locked in tight race for delegates," but there are two versions of that same story. One is from the original URL. A longer, more comprehensive version of the same story is at a different URL, the one currently being promoted on the home page. (You can tell they are different pages despite the same headline by the ID number at the end of the URL).

A corrective tweet and a correction to the original story were later added, reading "The Democratic race in Iowa remains too close to call. An earlier version of this article prematurely named Hillary Clinton a winner."

This post has been updated with the Wall Street Journal's correction.