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Usually when you talk about polls in hoops-crazy Indiana and North Carolina, you’re referring to college basketball rankings. But today, all the “polling” talk has been associated with the two states’ important Democratic presidential primaries. Will tonight’s results finally settle it between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, or will the race for the Democratic nomination go on and on? If it continues, maybe they should battle it out on the basketball court and determine the nominee with a game of H-O-R-S-E.
Stay tuned here as the results roll in. …
UPDATE (7:19 p.m.): Clinton leads early in Indiana.
UPDATE (7:30 p.m.): Polls close in North Carolina, and Obama is called the winner.
UPDATE (8:24 p.m.): CBS News calls Indiana for Clinton. … As of 9 p.m., they’re still the only one to do so.
UPDATE (9:15 p.m.): In a speech from Raleigh, N.C., Obama congratulates Clinton on her apparent victory in Indiana.
UPDATE (10:18 p.m.): Lack of Lake County (Gary), Ind., results is what’s keeping networks (other than CBS), AP, and others from calling Indiana.
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Don’t blame racism
Really? It seems odd that Obama would make a concession speech for Indiana when Lake County hasn’t reported yet.
In any events, with 63% of votes counted, her lead is only 3.7 points and sure to drop.
I think she’ll win, by such a small margin that compared to his 10-14 point win in NC, the writing is going to be on the wall.
Who cares?
Ah yes a “stunning” performance by Clinton.
Clinton has 2% win in Indiana, having lost what at one point is a double digit lead. A 14% loss in North Carolina where she was predicting she could catch Obama.
Clinton will not not be able to ever capture the lead in the popular vote, even if she manages to wiggle Michigan and Florida into the mix.
Clinton has no realisitic way to catch Obama in pledged delegates.
And the close race in Indiana belies arguments about certain classes of state where Obama is argued to be seriously weak.
Now how will Clinton play this going forward?
Is she ready to minimize her own personal damage moving forward?
And Obama’s electoral success occurred despite an extremely rough negative campaign effort to destabilize him. It looks like heavy duty negative campaigning injures Obama but does not cripple him.