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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This could become a primary version of Gore v. Bush in 2000.
I fully expect something like that within a few hours.
On FOX tonight, Bob Beckel told a story from his campaign days. On election night, the city of Gary had not called in any vote totals. He called the mayor and said “Mr. Mayor, when are you going to call in your numbers?”
The mayor responded, “As soon as you tell me how many votes you need.”
I have no trouble whatsoever believing this story.
Instead of the Dems pulling a Seattle on the GOP, they are pulling it on each other.
But will they let her run against a sitting Democrat president in four years?
ROFL
I agree and think this will be investigated and debated until hades freezes over, thaws, and freezes again.
The Clinton machine is at work, but Gary may put Obama over the top. Rove just said it could be as close as 700 votes.
lol
From a county population of 484,500 in Lake County, Indiana there could conceivably be enough votes ‘found’ or created for Obama to erase a 40,000 vote margin, so it ain’t over yet folks.
Don’t know how many of the adults will vote in this primary but there could be well over 100,000 votes cast plus who knows how many dead people, fictitious people, etc. It won’t be hard to pretend Obama won by 110,000 to 60,000 or so, though whether anyone will believe it is another question.
Demographics
Lake County
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_County,_Indiana
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 484,564 people, 181,633 households, and 126,961 families residing in the county. The population density was 975 people per square mile (376/km²). There were 194,992 housing units at an average density of 392 per square mile (151/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 66.72% White, 25.33% Black or African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.82% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.96% from other races, and 1.85% from two or more races. 12.20% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The most commonly cited national ancestries were German (12.2%), Polish (9.6%) and Irish (7.1%).
In 2000, there were 181,633 households out of which 32.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.70% were married couples living together, 16.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.10% were non-families. 25.80% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.19.
In the county the population was spread out with 26.80% under the age of 18, 9.30% from 18 to 24, 28.30% from 25 to 44, 22.60% from 45 to 64, and 13.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 92.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $41,829, and the median income for a family was $50,131. Males had a median income of $41,986 versus $26,393 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,639. About 9.70% of families and 12.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.80% of those under age 18 and 8.00% of those age 65 or over.
“Terrifying” is the word I’d pick.
Dare we hope tonight might be the end of the Clinton era?
No. Which is why she’ll never let Obama win. She’ll do some dirty work for McCain and help get him elected. Then she’ll go head to head with him in 4 years.
We should ask him.
Maybe he’ll scream an answer for us.
:)
Hmmm, where is Dean Logan? Seems they have taken a lesson from Seattle’s former elections director.
Every vote should be counted ONCE. NO DEAD PEOPLE VOTING. NO ILLEGALS VOTING. This whole process makes me sick! After seeing the results so far, I’m sure blacks won’t mind if whities vote 91% for the WHITE candidate.
Heck -- just look at what happened in Texas. Clinton "won" the Texas primary but Obama ended up with more delegates.
"Fake, but accurate...."
Operation Chaos is being announced on FNC now. Kelley
See my post, # 40,above. I thought I may have misinterpreted Beckel. He basically related a story of a federal crime committed by a corrupt democratic mayor and he was absolutely nonchalant about it.
Beckel's attitude about voter fraud and criminal conduct was very revealing and is common among democrats. They shrug it off like it is no big deal.
Hard to find a more corrupt town than Gary.
This reminds me of the 2002 Senate race in South Dakota... stayed up all night for results ... Thune was up @500 on Johnson when I called it quits at 4am. When I woke up a few hours later, the Indian Reservatins came in and, voila!, it was Johnson by @ 500.
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