Gary Mayor Predicts Possible Indiana Shocker

[sabra]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/06/gary_mayor_predicts_possible_i.html

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 no 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."

...

In March, Clay predicted the race would come down to Gary, telling the Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times that tonight on CNN, "They are going to point at Indiana and say Hillary Clinton is leading by one point but Gary ain't come in yet."

[maddezmom]

1. and interestingly enough Toobin on CNN just called this out

:shrug:

[Adelante]

8. He said the same thing?

CNNI has switched back to international, damn :(

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Ah - lake county is Gary.

Now it all becomes clear. This should be Obama country and Clinton is in serious trouble of a loss in Indiana.

[karynnj]

18. More complicated

It is Gary which is mainly black - but also Hammond and East Chicago which I think are less black, with big ethnic populations But, there are also smaller towns - Highland, Griffith, Munster which are working class?middle class towns and towns like Scherville and Merriville which I think are more upscale - I visit there but don't live there - so I could have some towns wrong (knowing them better 30 years ago) 35 years ago a huge percent of people worked in the steel mills - that is less now.

[Coexist]

3. .....

[HillYesSheWill]

4. HILL will hold on --- YES SHE WILL!

[orleans]

13. wow--under ten minutes from the post. see ya! (wouldn't want to be ya!)

[JVS]

5. Alright!

[bigwillq]

6. MSNBC

said some counting will not be finished until tomorrow.

[cottonseed]

7. kick for the kicks

watching this unfold is just plain neat. I'm looking forward to the final count.

[beachmom]

9. Rec'd for his apt prediction from March.

Oh, and related: Tweety just sang Gary, Indiana. Luckily, they went to commercial.

[woolldog]

10. LOL--Probably not a smart move on the mayor's part

to come out and say that.

[Colobo]

11. That would be THE SHIT! Gobamaaa!

[Tribetime]

12. Thanks looks like CBS has egg on it's face

[Raine]

14. Interesting nt

[onefreespiritedchick]

15. Jeffery Toobin (CNN) is saying this sounds corrupt

Like in the old days of Chicago politics. I would really think this would not happen.

[prolesunited]

16. Baseless speculation

There was huge voter turnout and they never report on time.

[Coexist]

17. Chuck Todd: Oh Lord!

[cui bono]

19. Please make it so.

Especially since she gave a victory speech.

PLEASE!!!