Indiana end-game: Links to CNN county results tables for Lake and Monroe

[ProgressiveEconomist]

Indiana end-game: Links to CNN results tables for Lake and Monroe

Election night politics rarely gets more thrilling than it has in Indiana tonight. With 92 percent of precincts in, fewer than 21,000 votes separate the candidates, and just two counties still have significant precincts out:

Lake County (Gary, Hammond)-- Last report 11:45 pm Eastern-- 72 percent out, running 3-1 Obama 27,991 HRC 9,470
CNN results table link: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#val=INDEMPRIMARY5

Monroe County (Bloomington)-- Last report 11:30 pm Eastern-- 33 percent out, running 2-1 Obama 8901 HRC 4617
CNN results table link: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#val=INDEMPRIMARY7

This tally excludes 3 minor ignorable counties that also still have precincts out: Union has 100 percent out; Harrison, 1 percent out; Hamilton, 3 percent out.

From what Chuck Todd said minutes ago on MSNBC, it could be that the Monroe votes are
mainly absentee ballots that could go Obama's way. Earlier, all the cable channels
were saying that the hold-up in Lake was the counting of 11,000 absentee ballots, which might go HRC's way.

And add to the mix the fact that exit polls show 11 percent of voters today were Republicans, perhaps part of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos".

IMO, this won't be settled until tomorrow at earliest. What do you think?

[Radio_Lady]

1. The Mayor of Hammond said his city went for Clinton!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. How big is Hammond compared to Gary?

[Marie26]

7. Hammon: 83000

Gary: 97,715. They're both pretty big cities.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. Does anybody have a link to within-county precinct reults for Lake--if not for

this year's primary, then for the 2004 General Election?

It would help interpret the county-level result.

[4_Legs_Good]

2. I think I'm getting sleepy!

But I'll try to hold on, just like I did in Nov 2000 practically all night...

I love this sh*t.

David

[Frances]

3. It will be interesting to see how the Repub vote breaks down

But I remember Obama saying very complimentary things about Indiana's Republican senator. I also remember Obama saying that many REpublicans have come up to him saying they will vote for him.

At any rate, the closeness of this race means that Obama has earned the Dem nomination.

We had two first rate contenders in this race IMO

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. "We had 2 first-rate contenders"--I agreed with that statement until HRC went

negative the beginning of March, and then BALLISTIC a few weeks later.

But maybe Hillary has done Obama a favor by beginning racial "dog-whistle" attacks against Obama (for example, some people hear "elitist" and think "uppity").

The Republicans surely will try to emulate Hil and Bill, but many Republican supporters are too rabid or unsophisticated be able to maintain the same degree of sublety. Then Republicans will have to face scrutiny from young voters and part of the media as an outright racialist party, and become anathema to a large block of voters.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Lake update: Obama 46,759 (65%) Clinton 25,100 (35%) -- 11:36 pm Eastern, with

56% of precincts reporting

[GetTheRightVote]

8. It looks like he should win the state from these numbers .... hmmmm

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. I'm not sure. Lake County is more than 70 percent white; WHERE within the county

are the precincts that have not reported yet?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

9. Monroe update: Obama 11,865 (64%) Clinton 6,661 (36%) -- 11:35pm Eastern

with 98% of precincts reporting. I'm not sure whether this result includes absentee ballots (IU is not in session, and so students who went home would have to have voted absentee)

[ProgressiveEconomist]

12. CLINTON WINS! Lake updated 1:11am-- Obama 66,265 (55%)

Clinton 53,310 (45%), with 98% reporting.

Looks like the vote outstanding was in Hammond, and that absentee ballots did not counteract the 70+ percent white majority population in the county