Posted on 05/06/2008 4:15:08 PM PDT by Aristotelian
Fox News Channel Prelimary Indiana Result: Hillary 52%, Obama 48%
BTW did you hear that after all voting is completed in June and her numbers don't come close to winning, she will take her campaign public and pounce the airways as she conducts rallies throughout the country to try and persuade the SD's that she has momentum. She is not giving up. Let's hope and pray tonight Obama pulls this out.
Drudge is now projecting Hilary as the winner in Indy.
I love the fact that Indiana is Red State. There is hope. There are still 9 libs there.
In the meantime, they actually have Republican primaries in the Democratic Peoples Republic of NJ where all 6 of us conservatives can go vote.
Sucks to live in Joisey! ;)
You can say that again.
We’re outta here.
As long as clinton and obama continue to churn through money they could have used in the fall, I’m happy.
Best wishes
Thanks for your post.
MSNBC said she got 51% of the GOP vote vs. 48% for Obama so Operation Chaos didn’t amount to a hill of beans. If that is true how sad that our party is leaving us in droves for these charlatans.
Operation Chaos!! Way to go operatives!
See my post above yours. Operation Chaos didn’t amount to a hill of beans, so says MSNBC. Obama came very close in the GOP numbers.
I don’t know how you come to that conclusion. Operation Chaos is in full operational mode. We did it! Indiana was suppose to Obama....each win a state...more chaos, more fighting, more mud....I LOVE IT. Thank you RUSH!
You are so wrong: before OC started Obama was winning the Republican vote 80% to 20%. When OC started in Oh and Tx Obama got the Republican vote 60% to 40%. Now as OC has picked up steam Obama isn't even winning the Republican vote anymore!!!!
I don’t live in an open primary state so I couldn’t have participated in OC if I had been so inclined.
However, I think sometimes that OC has two psyops functions: (1) blunt Obama and (2) make dems wonder if they really elected the candidate or if it was Republicans crossing over.
Either way, it costs them money as well.
Lake and Monroe Counties are not in. That's Obama's best two areas - Gary and Bloomington. Tippecanoe isn't in either (West Lafayette). Marion County is 65% in and Obama is winning 65-35. (Indianapoilis). Obama won Allen County 55-45 (Fort Wayne) and St Joseph (South Bend) 53-47. Elkhart 59-41.
I think Obama could catch up. It's going to be close.
How big of an impact did Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Chaos’ have in Indiana? Did GOP voters really cross over to create havoc in the Democratic primary by voting for Hillary Clinton, as he’d asked his listeners to do?
"Roughly one in ten of the state’s Democratic primary voters were Republican — and that group did vote for Hillary Clinton, 53 to 47 percent over Barack Obama. But hold on: registered Democrats, who made up two-thirds of Tuesday’s primary voters, gave roughly the same edge to Clinton, 53 to 45 percent. Only Independents — who made up about a quarter of the electorate — voted for Obama, 53 to 47 percent."
Bottom line is this...Indiana should have went to OBAMA... it did not. Hillary pulled a win...and the republican crossover was the key factor. your wrong and the media is trying to diminish limbaugh’s impact. nice try.
I think there's an exit poll that asks Republicans who voted for Hillary whether they will support McCain the GE. And, I don't remember the numbers, but this poll seemed to support the assumption above. (Sorry, no link.) Take it FWIW.
What was Hillary’s projected spread in Indiana 12+ pts? If she only takes it by 4, having been power-washed in NC, I kinda expect her to turn tail tomorrow or Thursday. You?
Obama is speaking now and appears to be conceding Indiana.
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