Obama may pull this off, and stick it to Limbaugh!

They never even conceded that this was a close race.

As expected, the early Lake County results are all Gary.  Not quite as good as it looked for a minute for Obama.

I think he's coming up just a smidge short. But closer than anyone thought a few hours ago.

If the rest of the county is that solid Obama, he's gonna pull it out. Doesn't seem like the rest of the county could be as heavily Obama as what's reported so far, but it's gonna be really close.

I feel good about that

I'm still stunned that this could actually be ending.

Will this be the Democratic Florida? Prolong the pain with conspiracy and questions and prevent any hope of unity before August?

P.S. Anderson Cooper is a maroon.

I still don't like this "wait until the absentees are counted" so-called "local practice."  

OTOH, Limbaugh voters are even worse.  

Monroe is still only reporting 67% precincts, it's a lot smaller than Lake but Obama is currently getting 66% of the vote there.

Apparently, that first wave of Lake County votes was roughly "half" of Gary.

If the other half of Gary is outstanding, that would wipe out the lead and make it a dead heat, leaving the Clinton-leaning parts of Lake and a few outstandings votes elsewhere that may favor him.

This has got to be scripted. It's too perfect for drama.

HRC has cancelled all of her morning show appearences tomorrow.

This could be it, people.

I know many are skeptical about the value of Intrade Election markets (I am not), but Hillary is collapsing there...

Obama's futures prices are skyrocketing

Anyone know the story here?  Why are they not reporting?

Although the popular vote is getting extremely close, Hillary's still way up in Indiana delegates - probably as a result of winning certain areas by percentages that are over a certain threshold.

So:

1) popular vote - almost a wash

2. delegates - Hillary
   
3. spin - so far, Obama, in that the insurmountability of his delegate and popular vote leads is sinking in more

Of course, popular vote is almost a wash in IN, but in NC Obama has already more than negated the popular vote hit he took in PA.

I wonder what the hell is happening in Union County?? No results there either, and it's definitely HRC country...

Now this is fun.

CNN is back on.

Check out Hillaryis44.

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Seems apropos.

Mayor of Hammond just said she won Hammond by 600 votes.  That's not much for her at all.

From the Fix at WaPo:

As the fate of a nailbiter Indiana primary -- and possibly the course of the Democratic race -- hung on his city, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary, and said tonight his city had turned out so overwhelmingly for Barack Obama that it might just be enough to close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Let me tell you, when all the votes are counted, when Gary comes in, I think you're looking at something for the world to see," Clay, an Obama supporter, said in a telephone interview from Obama's Gary headquarters. "I don't know what the numbers are yet, but Gary has absolutely produced in large numbers for Obama here."

Clay said the results were late coming in from Lake County because of the large numbers of absentee ballots that had to be counted -- about 11,000. Under local practice, all of the cartridges from voting machines in Gary and nearby East Chicago are first collected at the local airport before being driven to the county headquarters to be tallied with the results from the rest of the county, he said. He said there were no major technical problems holding up the count.

Was Obama misquoted? Perhaps he meant "Indiana is the tie-maker"

Well, for good or for bad, if the media starts pulling the plug on this then the campaign is done. It was always going to be a dangerous move for Clinton to try and push for this in the current circumstances. With the media apparently jumping ship all at once it is over.

Wow, Lanny Davis is a walking disaster. I can't believe that the Clinton campaign is keeping him out there on CNN tonight. He looks and sounds awful.

it must feel like 500,000 people dying for her.

(or maybe being hit by a cluster bomb.)

Whether Clinton wins Indiana by 2%, 1%, 1/2% or whether Obama squeaks out a victory - it is all the same.  The race in effectively over.  Clinton had to have the exact opposite results to continue to challenge Obana - a big win in Indiana and close in NC.

It is time for Edwards and Gore to endorse Obama and for Clinton to concede.  We do not need primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky where Obama may still lose by double digits.  What good will they do?

PS - This comes from a Clinton supporter.

"The cartridges from  Gary and East Chicago" - are these the paper-trail-less machines that are impossible to recount, that CNN just talked about? Hmmmmm