52% Clinton
48% Obama
North Carolina (85% reporting):
42% Clinton
56% Obama
It's looking like Gary, Indiana, could play a significant role in the campaign, because the results coming in from that corner of the state will determine the final margin of Hillary Clinton's CBS-declared victory there. And county officials say that results there won't be available until midnight CDT at the earliest.
But Clinton's Indiana margin has been shrinking steadily throughout the night, and indeed it's mathematically possible at this point for Obama to overtake her, or at least forge a much narrower loss than it looked like earlier in the evening. Depends on how many folks in Gary voted, and how they voted.
Either way, it's clear she won't have the solid win she needed to get in Indiana (much less the runaway win she craved), and it's going to be tough to convince both superdelegates and donors from this point onward ...
... Meanwhile, CNN's P0litical Ticker wonders if Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" had its intended effect in Indiana. Perhaps -- though if the current shrinking margin is anything to go by, I'd say it was pretty weak. I did see one MSNBC poll that found that 11 percent of the Democratic primary voters in Indiana were self-identified Republicans, which is somewhat high.
Still, it's also true that Limbaugh called out his troops in North Carolina. And I'd say they were miserable failures there.
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So, David!
Hi David…. quite a trouper tonight….. voted yet in Oregon?
David!
SO what are they doing to cook the books in Gary/Lake County?
Just asking
David! thank you for another excellent (and timely) post
i am pinching myself,how can somebody be so delusional
Hi David.
Here it comes.
And Thank you David!
Hillary. “It’s so close…” WHere’s my barf bag?
I have a large selection of forks. Will someone PLEASE take one of them and stick it into Hillary? She’s done… At least she said she would work for the nominee.
salon.com headline who’s HRC corollary you’ll never see:
wow, talk about a nail biter.
but her speech is just detached from reality. Someone please tell her to stop pimping the gas tax.
It’s over. Double digit loss in NC.
Maybe a MARGINAL win in IN.
Someone call her, and let her know Larue thanks her for her triangular ingratitude to the party, but it’s over.
Harumph.
No surprise; McCain can’t get the Thugs to come vote either.
Listening to Clinton’s concession speech. Listen to the tone. She knows it’s game over.
Actually- I’ve been watching the Indiana vote count for a couple of hours and her margin has grown just a bit recently from just over 30,000 to just over 40,000.
Won’t do her any good- but it looks as if she will win.
Here what comes, newt? Obamanation?
Bill wants to get off that stage, oh the unbearable weights…wonder what he is drinking tonight.
She’s now traveled to another planet. No longer grounded in reality.
Ain’t that the gospel truth…
“I win, he wins, I win, he wins…”
Sorry, Hillary, it’s not about the I, it’s about the O.
There are 11,000 absentee ballots to be counted, and they don’t want to release the results until they are counted.
Subdued crowd, don’t you think?
It’s like watching the Spurs/Hornets game last night.
Hillary needs to finish the last few primaries-Obama may fall into a pile of shit between now and November- and she needs to be in a position to take the nomination if it happens. She knows that’s the only way she gets this thing.
Did she say “as we go on with this campaign” or “if we go on with this campaign” ??
he looks like a half asleep hick with his mouth hanging open like that.
Chelsea looks like she KNOWS it’s over,
She should have done the classy thing and conceded tonight, no one would think the lesser of her …
She’ll win. But not by what she was supposed to, by a bunch. She also put out that NC was going to be close, within single digits. Not so much….
I think I’d be drinking tequila.
that is what ive said…it is really freaky
Also depends on whether or not there will be a fair vote in Gary. I have deep suspicions about that.
Bill and Chelsea have that get me outta hear look … of course, Bill really put his own rep on the line in NC … all the talk of all his appearances
Higher registrations.
Higher fundraising.
Higher poll numbers.
The Democratic party is being destroyed by this primary season.
Burma.
Bill’s complexion is getting redder. And Hillary does look like she’s been crying.
you’d think they could have started counting them, uh, this morning, maybe?
Did we just hear Senator Clinton ask to be SecState?
I’m a Seattleite. I did go to my caucuses.
Obama said it was about US….. HRC keeps saying the I word…. where are we HRC? What about us HRC?
i still read Glenn. other than that, I’m just over it with Salon! It’s not that I begrudge anyones choice in this primary, but the way Walsh has done it is despicable!
Yeah. Chelsea’s practically crying.
yeah- she didn’t get what she needed tonight. It’s over unless Obama craters.
Not going to comment on her No, get out now and wait in the wings. If all goes to pot, she will be the nominee but this shit is OVER
Damn… This IS beginning to sound like a concession speech…
what the hell happened to BILLS face?
O o. She’s thanking her staff and supporters and family. She’s saying good-bye. This is it. Love you Hillary!
Am I hearing Hillary make a concession speech?
yeah, Hills, there’s no “i” in “just go away, please”
Dave … the YouTube looks fascinating … I’m saving it to watch carefully later .. thank you!
His eyes tell the tale.
True dat
All those favors they promised. It was gonna be a lock.
He’s been campaiging in North Carolina- outside it looks like.
Hello, David!
Wow — North Carolina’s polls closed a full half-hour after Indiana’s, and they called it for Obama immediately. If the current margins hold, Hillary picks up 35 delegates, and Obama picks up 42, which widens his delegate lead over her by seven even as the delegate pool grows ever smaller.
I hope for Hillary’s sake that less than 4% of the Indiana vote is tied to Rush Limbaugh. If he is shown to have given her the margin of victory, that hurts more than the rumor (which Terry Mac wouldn’t deny tonight) that she had to loan her campaign another $5 million recently.
It’s all good news for the republicans, though.
Oh, shit… “Now it’s on to WV and KY…”
veep
i think this is the pre-concession speech
Oh dear. What happened with that post.
Here it goes: No, she should get out now and wait in the wings. If all goes to pot, she will be the nominee but this shit is OVER
It’s starting to sound like a concession speech. “Didn’t Chelsea do a great job”?
Bill is feeling her pain, really.
It didn’t work.
Listening to it now on MSNBC.
At LEAST a unity plea.
But yeah, the rest?
Gag me with a shovel.
Well, lemme take that back.
It DOES sound more and more like a conciliatory speech, the deeper she’s gettiing into it!!!
Announcement soon, 24 hours, when the fundraising phones go quiet tomorrow, with unanswered and unreturned calls. At last.
And what of the traitors Gore and Edwards, to the progressive cause, who REFUSED to lay their necks on the line as of yesterday and today?
So who’s Obama gonna pick for a VP?
Gore and Edwards HAVE to be out, I just can’t respect either one of them.
Damn but I’d KILL to have Kuch!!!
Beating McCain with Obama should NOT be too hard at this point.
We sure got a lot of proof and evidence against a third Bush Reign.
And war and the economy trump most everything else.
We fight back.
Harumph.
bills crying!!!!!!!
he is!!!!!
sadly no.
Bill rubbing his eye
Think about this a moment. In 2004, Bush won NC by 12 points. Although the Republican nomination is settled for President, there were important statewide primaries for the Senate and Governor, so the R’s must have been doing some GOTV effort. The ratio of Democratic votes to Republican votes tonight is more than 3 to 1. Absolutely astounding.
What? Nobody has Dugg this post yet? Here!
It sure has that feel … very odd indeed … concession in everything except the we’re going on …
sounds like she is setting up for the big concession speech to be given later.
She doesn’t even sound convinced of her own candidacy anymore. Even the florida and michigan bullsit was half hearted
My Oregon family are voting right now…. mailing those ballots in…
It has that sound to it to me, too. Parts of it, anyway.
uggh Floridahhh
Hmmm…Gary, IN could produce an Obama win in IN?
Here’s another Gary production that seems appropriate for Hillary’s campaign:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=snihdG1rE0Y
this is trully BIZZARO,ive been around the block a few times,this is PURE delusion…scary
I am sad for her.
Oh, fuck. Now she’s back on FL and MI…. Give it up, lady… [I chose not to use the first word that came to mind…]
I doubt it … she’s undercutting Obama, which is not good the Dems in November …
“flags at half mast”…for this campaign
Dang, she invoked FL and MI.
She’s not done!!!! Aiiiiiiiyiiiiiii yiiiiiiii will SOMEONE rid me of this meddlesome mendicant!
Harumph.
I’m sad for him. He laid down on the tracks for this.
shut up TWEETY
thank goddess that speech is over
Tweety: it was charming no shots against obama blah blah blah
Think about what she did to Obama’s kneecaps.
Hillary’s talk of going forward was half-hearted. She knows it’s over.
This is priceless… From the Politico…
Tweety is on his joint ticket bit again … give it up
Tweety sees a political mating game afoot
they know she has lost but are still trying to be in denial
reality is creeping in…
they keep pushing the meme that the votes were fair there….. and HRC is sure that the low information voters will believe it….. NOT
Lots! Take it from a native! I wouldn’t count Obama’s chances of winning out yet, that’s for sure!
Is this the most bizarre speech you have ever heard? Almost multiple personalities….
While Olbermann quotes Churchill
Keith is so dissapointing tonight ,what gives
applauding sadlyyes!
I guess he missed the first line and that bit about Mi Fl …
The use of “Tweety” and “mating” in the same sentence gives me hives.
well that was weird
yes it is queer
So did everyone in the audience.
And her husband and daughter. I’m thinking there was a difference of opinion in that family about what here speech was to be about tonight and what she would do next.
It did seem like a concession speech to me.
Just said the same thing myself. This is for all intents and purposes, her farewell. Got to say, as happy as I am that Obama has done so well tonight, I do feel a bit sorry for Hillary. She has been a fierce opponent. You have to admire that.
Now if she would try to take this fight to the floor of the convention, my sympathy for her would come to an abrupt end. I don’t really think in spite of all the rhetoric tonight that she will. She will just end this on her own terms, at her chosen time.
She’ll go on- but she won’t spend much money on it- and her tone will be much milder…
The only way she wins is if Obama steps on it- there’s low risk for her to finish.
exactly
Rightfully so!
me too
Hill seems totally LOST
Are the only people of color there at the HRC even the security people?
If you look for Rangoon.
But you look too soon . . . .
It’s all wet.
Aid it will not let.
It’s Burma Shave.
I’m sorry, but I have NO pity for her. Her campaign has been shameful.
9/11. Count every vote. Evan Bayh. Gracious NC voters.
She’s a very effective Senator for NY. She should stay there and stick to her knitting and turn into a major power in the Senate. I’ve said that for years…
Why the hell did she mention the Democratic Convention? Does she intend to stay in the race that long?
I think that the Supers now need to shut this DOWN! She didn’t pull off the upset in North Carolina and barely won in Indiana (if in fact she has). Obama is going to actually pick up 10 or more regular delegates tonight. He’s well over 145 ahead. Now the math is that she has to win on the order of 70% of the upcoming votes.
Stop jousting with windmills, Hillary. You might kill the burro!
Gary, Indenial
I wish I could agree … she would have edited the darts at Obama if she was going to concede …
After the “obliterate Iran” statement, she should be made to be as irrelevant as humanly possible till the end of her term, and then she should be soundly dismissed!
bingo
She has to begin to embrace Obamas supporters and convince her own to vote Obama. And we have to renew our pressure on Obama before the corporate vultures move in to force us out (I know, I know, they are already in there!)
I would be happy if she fought this hard on the floor of the Senate.