Gary, Indiana Mayor Predicts Obama Win
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in NewsThe only votes left to count are coming out of Lake County, which is where Gary, Indiana is located.
“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.
“It takes a little time. We want to be sure that every vote is counted fair and right,” he said. “I just talked to the director out there and they are working like junkyard dogs to get that done as soon as possible. They are taking some time but I told them to do it right. That’s what taking the time.”
And he might just be right. The vote difference is now under 20,000!
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May 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thats probably where he took most of that 75%-25% vote that CNN is reporting as of right now.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
They just said it was all from Gary. So look for her to start getting some of that back now.