MSNBC: 95% In Now From Indiana - 16,609 Vote Difference

[Hissyspit]

Was around 20,000 when it was at 92%.

Keith Olbermann: Last 5% is Lake County/Gary and Hammond, Indiana.

Clinton 606,497 Obama 589,888

[JBoy]

1. holy crap, it's gonna be close!!!!

[AllexxisF1]

2. HELL YEA

HELL YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[MadBadger]

3. 5,000 vote win for Hillary.

[ruby slippers]

14. and 10,000 came from Rush Chaos....

[WeDidIt]

4. Monroe County outstanding is all absentee

from the college.

[Muttocracy]

10. and they said those are probably students who voted before classes out!

[Dbdmjs1022]

5. He may not win it, but he's still dealt her a fatal blow. GOBAMA!!!

[Coexist]

6. interesting notes

11:20 PM. Another milestone of sorts: if you COMBINE the results from Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina, it now appears that Obama will have gained in the popular vote between those three states. I am not sure about the delegate count.

11:10 PM. If we look at the outstanding vote OUTSIDE of Lake County, the model shows 3,771 votes for Obama and 3,000 exactly for Clinton. Most of that comes from the couple of precincts in Marion County that have yet to report. So Obama has just a tiny bit of wiggle room outside of Lake Co, but we all know where this is going to be decided.

11:00 PM. Because of the provisional ballots issue, it's a strong possibility that neither candidate will be able to declare victory in Indiana until days from now. (Well, except that Clinton already did declare victory).


http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

[EFerrari]

7. This would already be over if all the registrations SCRUBBED

in Lake County had been able to vote. :shrug:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

but its easier to count when you scrub 1 million voters

?

[rusty quoin]

God, this is exciting.

[VolcanoJen]

8. Is Indiana counting their votes on a fuckin' abacus??!!?????

I have to work in the morning, dammit!!

God, I love this shit. :-)

[rusty quoin]

13. Me too! I voted Obama today in Indiana today. Never has my vote meant this much.

[dnbmathguy]

9. Clinton 606,497 Obama 589,888

Clinton 50.694% Obama 49.306%

1.388% differential

95% reporting

[RiverStone]

11. Obama won 56% of Lake by 20K - could there be another 20K in there?

If so, he really could win - but no matter what - it will be razor close.

Either way, great news for our future President - Obama!

[grantcart]

12. 95% is the number of precincts not necessarily the % of the vote I think

[Hissyspit]

16. I believe you are right.

I wanted to emphasize the vote difference, though.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. I cannot believe this!

I did not in a million years expect this tonight.

Thank you Indiana!

[DerekJ]

17. She is 0.02% out for a round down to %50 - 50

[demwing]

18. thats 15609, don't load it heavy! :-)

GOBAMA!

[TexasObserver]

19. Rush accounted for at least 80,000 of Hillary's votes

Operation chaos = 7% of the total vote, or 14% of Hillary's voters

[nyccitizen]

20. Argh... I think the pro-Obama areas are maxed out...

CNN saying the remainder of Lake County is from the rural parts of the district... gonna be very tough for him to close that 16.5k gap. Fingers crossed though.

[blitzen]

22. others are saying that only half of Gary is in....

The first half of Gary gave Obama a 20,000 vote gain

[kwenu]

21. I'm not sure it matters. In terms of delegates and mo' Hillary is practically finished.

[McCamy Taylor]

23. Lake County has reported the Gary votes but is holding the other cities that went for Clinton

According to the mayors from these cities they turned in their vote totals up to 4 hours ago. Why would the county turn in Gary's votes (which make it look like Obama is now going to win) but withhold the votes from the rest of the county which supposedly favor Clinton? Is the mayor of Hammond (which is almost as big as Gary and which the mayor said Hillary won narrowly) lying? Is the Lake County elections board trying to make it look like Hillary lost so that she will lose this chance to get donations? Did the GOP get someone at Lake County to delay the release to psych out Dems?

If the Hillary bashers at MSNBC are declaring Indiana a win for Obama that could cost her millions in donations, just as the press ignoring Edwards' second place in Iowa cost him donations.

Here are stats about the cities in Lake County.

http://www.stats.indiana.edu/profiles/pr18089.html

[uponit7771]

24. Where the heck is Gary's mayor ?!?!!?

[McCamy Taylor]

26. He is on CNN refusing to answer the question. They keep asking why

they would not release the results of the towns that already counted their votes and sent them in hours ago. He keeps harping back to how are counting 11k absentee votes. Then the CNN guys say "How about some partial totals" and this mayor says "We are counting 11k absentee votes" "But you could send us the totals you have" "But we have to count the 11k absentee votes!"

I think they were talking to a recorded message.

I also think the mayor of Gary might have been at the Lake County election center. I wish that someone had asked.

[uponit7771]

27. He knows people need to go to bed :-)

[uponit7771]

30. Yeah, he's sounding like a broken record to me...he was asked why hasn't the votes been counted and

...totaled yet and the mayor wont answer him straight up.

[Stagecoach]

33. The way it sounds

According to the mayor of Gary, they're not going to release their total results until after they've counted the 11,000 absentee ballots.

[L. Coyote]

25. 60,000 outstanding in Lake County. Obama needs 5/8ths to win

given a 1,000 plus margin added from Monroe's absentees.

[MadBadger]

31. Where did you hear 60,000?

[McCamy Taylor]

28. "We are counting 11 thousand absentee ballots"

That is going to be my new excuse for everything.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. "Appearance of impropriety" Mayor of Hammond

[McCamy Taylor]

32. "We have Democrats and Republicans counting the votes" Mayor of Gary

Bingo! I smell a Karl Rove GOP dirty trick to divide and conquer the Democrats.

[mythyc]

34. HELP!!!! Can anyone direct me to a live stream online besides CNN?

I'm really sick of all the conspiracy theorizing here on the Clinton News Network.

Checked MSNBC and couldn't find a live feed....

ANYTHING BUT CNN, I beg of you

[McCamy Taylor]

35. We have the votes! Wow! Now the Lake County votes are 55O, 45C

Which means that Clinton is still ahead in Indiana. Who would have thought? With 98% of Lake County counted .

[uponit7771]

37. 98% in Marion too, Gary is STILL not in !! WTF?!!

[uponit7771]

36. CNN reporting for Clinton, is Gary counting votes on their fingers?!??!!??!

[McCamy Taylor]

38. CNN calls Indiana for Hillary (after the Mayor of Gary holds up the decision for

four hours while counting eleven thousand votes) but if you were watching CNN you got to see the Mayor of Hammond demand that he release the vote and suddenly the vote appeared.

Damn that was political theater!

Maybe the Mayor of Gary figured it would cost Hillary some donations. Or maybe they were hoping those eleven thousand absentee ballots would contain a miracle.