Posted on 05/06/2008 8:08:18 PM PDT by rdl6989
As the fate of a nailbiter Indiana primary -- and possibly the course of the Democratic race -- hung on his city, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary, and said that his city had turned out so overwhelmingly for Barack Obama that it might just be enough to close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Let me tell you, when all the votes are counted, when Gary comes in, I think you're looking at something for the word 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 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."
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CBS duped again! LOL
Hillary's a chump. She forgot about Gary-right next door to the most crooked political operation in the country.
Remember, when in Gary, vote early, and Often!!!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Hillary conceded?? I haven’t seen that, are you certain?
Lanny Davis has spoken over and over in the past hour of carrying on the fight, so he hasn’t gotten the word if Hillary is bowing out.....
Indiana
Precincts Reporting: 91%
Candidate # of votes % of total
Hillary Clinton 587,973 50.91%
Barack Obama 566,988 49.09%
Talking a 95%(!!!) turnout in Lake County...
Can you say VOTER FRAUD!!!!
More popcorn!
C BS hasn’t learned anything. A lesson for all the moonbats lurking around. If it is 700 votes as Rove said earlier, I deem him quite connected and soothsayer of 21st century politics.
Britt Hume just called ‘lights out for her’ if Obama takes IN.
Poor girl. She really did campaign her black heart out, gotta give her that.
And what about Huma? Will she be stoned for failing to deliver her prey to Islam?
“Obama makes me think ‘anti-Christ’.”
Obama has proven to me what a charismatic speaker can do to influence a population regardless of that speaker’s intellect or evil motives like a Hitler or other “Antichrist”. I’m shocked by it. I’m not saying Obama is an evil antichrist but it’s a lesson to me.
Either way we get a Socialist (D) nominee. Wouldn't be the first socialist President, nor likely the last. Might be the first America hating Marxist President, and maybe the first President for Life.
Seems like a good reason to:
I would think the more important issue in a primary race like this is: How well do the candidates do in CONTESTED states? It's one thing for Clinton to win California and for Obama to win Illinois (both of these are going to be "blue" states in November regardless of who the candidates are), or for Clinton to win Texas and Obama to win Georgia (both of these will be "red" in November).
The real races are those in which the candidates are running in states that will actually be closely contested in November -- and Obama has won most of those from what I can see (Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri being three key states).
Nice find!
You should post it as its’ own thread.
Seriously.
The fix was in 7 days ago.
Well, I have similar feelings about the Clintons.
I watched her speech and she spoke in the past tense of the help from her family. That’s all I have.
Well, you have to count East Chicago, too, in Lake Cty.
Are you watching FNC? Brit Hume is hysterically funny when he's up waaaay past his bedtime. LOL!
God help us in November... :-(
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