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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That fight will be interesting. The credibility of the DNC rides on that. (We must remember that they are smarter than all.....) :^)
Clay is sounding very defensive on CNN talking to Blitzer.
Now that is fun news. Everyone knows the Dems are an open book! LOL....
FNC is showing 100% in with a 22K Clinton lead!!
NBC just declared HRC the “apparent winner” of IN
UP TO 98% REPORTED FROM LAKE COUNTY, AND 99% STATEWIDE
Clinton still up statewide 22,000
(more than before)
Looks like Hillary has squeaked through
Hillary is still in it.
The tension was thick and obvious as the Hammond Mayor all but accused the Gary Mayor of cheating.
This is rich!!! Re-Play that tape all day and night...it showed the Demmys coming apart at the seams!
Hillary called her dogs on the counties.
FIX IT!
I saw that.
Hill has taken IN by 20,000. Fox News
CNN PROJECTS HILLARY WINNING INDIANA
wow, risky prediction considering that 98% of the vote is in.... /s
but Hillary needed two big wins tonight and got only one narrow squeaker
Hillary is in it in her own mind. She is toast. The cries will go out later today for her to drop out. Expect further shifts and commitments from the super delegates to Obama. It is over.
Oh, I want her to be in it all the way to Denver, I just want the SDs not taking her phone calls for the next 5 months.
NOW I’m fully 100% OK with OpChaos.
I agree that Obama isn’t it......but why couldn’t it be a POTUS? He could take over the UN and bam!
Net gain of 4 electors for Obama.
Operation Chaos no doubt more than provided the margin of Victory in IN.
I don’t see how the Democrat powers let her keep going after this, but who knows? There ought to be a loud clamor for her to end it for sake of the party, but what will it take? No one can get her to STFU.
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