Did you ever think he’d really go away?
Apparently he’ll be speaking at Indiana University about the results of the election.
My question: why?
I mean, does anybody really care what John Edwards’ thinks about the Democrats winning? Especially Democrats? All he’s doing is giving the right wing more cannon fodder.
One bit of good news from the [...]

I don’t know if there will be a recount in either state because the totals are so close, but as I predicted…Missouri didn’t pick the winner for only the second time in over 100 years.
On the other hand, Indiana delivered for Obama and I think it was clear from very early in the evening that [...]

Via Hotline…
- Obama leading men by 2% and women by 9%
- African-American turnout to be 7% — identical to what it was in ‘04
- Obama leading Indies, who made up 23% of voters, 56-41%
And then, even bigger margins in Vigo county…
With 80 percent of the votes counted, Obama leads McCain in Vigo 57-42.
As my colleague [...]

By significant margins in unfriendly counties…
Steuben: Kerry 34%, Obama 42%
DeKalb: Kerry 31%, Obama 38%
Knox: Kerry 36%, Obama 54%
Marshall: Kerry 31%, Obama 50%
Right now it’s neck and neck, with both candidates grabbing around 46,000 votes with 3% reporting.
More as it develops…

I posted about the attempt by some Indiana Republicans to shut down early voting in heavily Democratic precincts and throw early votes out.
And as the title telegraphs, their gambit didn’t work.
From Indiana Law Blog:
The Indiana Supreme Court just agreed, by a vote of 3-2, to decline jurisdiction over the Republicans’ appeal. This means their only [...]

Normally this wouldn’t make the blog, but we’re talking about an election official here. She clearly should have known better.
From IndyStar.com:
FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — A Republican county election clerk distributed copies of an apparent chain letter referring to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a “young, black Adolf Hitler” to two employees but later told [...]

More numbers bring more bad news for McCain.
Now, Big Ten polls the eight states where the Big Ten school are, so some of them (Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota) I’m not going to even bother showing since they’re safely blue.
Instead, I’ll focus on four McCain has been campaigning in recently.
Indiana: +10
Obama 51%
McCain 41%
Ohio: Obama + 12
Obama [...]

First the numbers…
New Hampshire:
Obama 53%, McCain 45%
Obama 51%, McCain 43%, Barr 3%, Nader 1%
Wisconsin:
Obama 51%, McCain 46%
Obama 50%, McCain 42%, Nader 4%, Barr 1%
Ohio:
Obama 50%, McCain 47%
Obama 48%, McCain 45%, Nader 3%, Barr 2%
North Carolina:
Obama 49%, McCain 49%
Obama 49%, McCain 48%, Barr 2%
Indiana:
McCain 51%, Obama 46%
McCain 48%, Obama 46%, Barr 5%
Looks like Barr is [...]

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Obama – 48%
McCain – 47%
This basically means they’re tied, but Indiana is usually a very reliably red state, so this is actually quite surprising.
Some more info…

Among men, McCain leads by 5; among women, Obama leads by 7 — a 12-point gender gap.
Among voters age 18 to 49, Obama leads by 5; among voters 50+, McCain [...]

The first is New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin:
“Since the immediate days following the storm, I have been traveling to our nation’s capitol to advocate for policies that aid our rebuilding effort,” Nagin said in a statement released by the Obama campaign. “I know first hand, we desperately need the leadership of someone committed to changing [...]

She’s up by about 22,000 with 99% reporting so MSNBC is calling it.
However, there’s a lot of absentee ballots yet to count, so we’re not going to know the real totals, but it’ll be hard for Obama to make up over 22,000 votes.
Amazing night folks. See you in the morning!

Clinton – 606,497 – 50.69%
Obama – 589,888 – 49.31%
Folks, she’s only ahead by 1.38%
Total Vote- 1,196,385
More soon…

Here are some numbers…
The unprecedented amount of absentee and early-voting ballots is slowing the vote count at Lake County election headquarters and keeping Americans waiting for Indiana primary results.
As of 8:40 p.m. CDT, about half of 11,370 absentee and early voting ballots had been counted, said Michelle Fajman, the county’s elections supervisor. By contrast, in [...]

That’s the word:
According to his numbers, in most districts Clinton’s turnout in the city of Gary was near non-existent. One precinct saw 126 voters turn out for Obama, while only four voted for Clinton.
[Gary Mayor Rudy] Clay said the election is seeing a record turnout in the city.
“We’re used to having maybe a 22, 23 [...]

This is from March 30th.
From NWI.com:
“We’ve got this title that Gary people don’t vote,” Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said to the crowd. “It’s going to be eliminated because Gary is going to register more people than have ever registered before.”
During Indiana’s primary, Gary will be a name on the lips of newscasters on CNN, he [...]

Wow.
Clinton – 584,113 – 51%
Obama – 564,323 – 49%
Keep coming back!!! This is just like Missouri!!!

It’s starting to tighten.
Clinton – 574,643 – 52%
Obama – 536,332 – 48%
Lake County is going to start reporting in about 25 minutes.
However…
Washington Post is now reporting that the mayor of Gary, Indiana is saying that Lake County turned out overwhelming for Obama and it could turn this on its head. In fact, the mayor is [...]

With 85% of the vote already in, the total vote is 1,070,170 (Clinton – 555,261, Obama – 514,909)
That means the other 15% is going to basically be 185,000 votes. If Obama gets 57% out of Lake County, which is what I’ve heard recently, he’d get 105,450 and she’d get 79,550. That’s a difference of 25,900 [...]

These numbers from MSNBC:
Obama – 725,161 – 56%
Clinton – 543,476 – 42%
These numbers have been fairly steady for the past hour.
By the way, Zogby predicted it would be a 14% win.
He also thought Obama would win by 2% in Indiana.
We shall see…