Barack OBama Wins North Carolina!

[LadyMod at scam.com]

CNN just reported OBama has won North Carolina and they are waiting the results from Indiana.


I can see Hillary sweatin' bullets now.


LOL

[LadyMod at scam.com]

It looks like he creamed her in NC. 67% OBama - 31% Clinton

So far Clinton holds the lead in Indiana, but it's close. Clinton 57% - Obama 43%.


Lady Mod

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Clinton only ahead by single digits and the counties that are projected to favor OBama, haven't reported yet.



Lady Mod

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[kres24GT]

Isn't Hillary winning the popular vote? With all the talk among Democrats that popular vote only should determine elections, per 2000, will they give her the nomination despite losing in delegates?

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Isn't Hillary winning the popular vote? With all the talk among Democrats that popular vote only should determine elections, per 2000, will they give her the nomination despite losing in delegates?


Nope, but it's close. The Indiana fight is very close. She only leads by 4 points and the remaining 25% have counties that favor OBama. Plus one part of Indianapolis where he is favored isn't in yet either.



LM

[Smurf-Herder]

Obama's only winning the cities, if you look at the map. I think Hillary would be ahead in the popular vote, if Michigan and Florida were included.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Obama's only winning the cities, if you look at the map. I think Hillary would be ahead in the popular vote, if Michigan and Florida were included.



http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#IN


She's winning the small rural towns. The big counties aren't in yet and even if he doesn't win, he's taken away her thunder. AND her argument that she is the stronger candidate.


Lady Mod


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[LadyMod at scam.com]

OBama got the Independent vote in Indiana.


Lady Mod

[LadyMod at scam.com]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#INDEM


Check out the Exit Polls.

Those are very interesting.

[Moby]

Obama's only winning the cities, if you look at the map. I think Hillary would be ahead in the popular vote, if Michigan and Florida were included.
We'll never really know. Obama never campaigned in those states. He wasn't even an option in Michigan and still there wasn't overwhelming support for Clinton.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Hillary won Indiana but only by a 2 percent lead. That's pathetic for a state that supposedly was Clinton friendly.

And not the solid win she was hoping for. And now she has to try to convince people to send her money so she can fight a losing battle.


She's down for the count.


Lady Mod

[LadyMod at scam.com]

She's not too bright. I wonder where she's going to come up with the money to carry on? Maybe frankie can loan them a million or two?



http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/nation/ny-usanal075676315may07,0,5694474.story


INDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama scored a resounding win in North Carolina while Hillary Rodham Clinton clung to a narrow lead in Indiana last night - delivering a major blow to Clinton's White House hopes and intensifying a scramble for undecided superdelegates.

Expectations were high in Clinton's camp after she closed a double-digit gap in polls over the past two weeks in North Carolina following the controversy over Obama's firebrand former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. But Obama cruised to a 58 percent to 42 percent win last night on the strength of 91 percent support among blacks, with nearly all precincts reporting.

In Indiana, Clinton was clinging to a 51 percent to 49 percent margin over Obama, with 95 percent of the vote counted. She vowed to press ahead in her quest for the nomination.

"My opponent made a prediction ... that Indiana would be the tiebreaker," Clinton told supporters here late last night, flanked by Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea. "Tonight we came from behind; we have broken the tie. ... This is your campaign; this is your victory."

The big North Carolina loss - coupled with her Indiana squeaker - seriously narrows Clinton's already pinched path to the nomination. With only six contests to be decided over the next month, Clinton trails Obama 1,815 to 1,672 in total delegates, according to The Associated Press.

But last night's results make it virtually impossible for Clinton to catch Obama in pledged delegates - and it seriously compromised her argument to unpledged superdelegates that she is more electable.

"It's got to be disappointing," said Jennifer Duffy, an analyst with the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. "They anticipated a much bigger win in Indiana than they're getting. ... I don't think it moves the ball forward for her at all."

Obama's strong showing - following two stumbling weeks that saw him lose further ground with working-class whites - seems to give him a decided edge with the 268 remaining uncommitted superdelegates.

Also, Clinton advisers acknowledged that her campaign was short on cash, refusing to say if the Clintons have had to lend the campaign more money following a $5-million loan in January. And they said that yesterday's results would make it harder for them to tap new donors.


The Indiana results were slow in coming as election officials in the Obama stronghold of Gary opted to count absentee ballots along with votes cast yesterday, infuriating some Clinton backers.

Clinton's shellshocked staff, which had anticipated a relatively drama-free night, wandered worriedly around the halls of the Murat Center in Indianapolis as Obama whittled down a lead that dwindled from double digits to a virtual tie. Senior Clinton advisers had conceded she could exit the race if she lost both states.

[asroc]

btw obama is 700k ahead in the pop vote

if you count fl and mi, he's still ahead approx. 150k. she's done.

she'll hang on, but it's for appearances and politicking a vp spot, cabinet spot, dnc spot, etc