Clinton wins Indiana; Obama wins NC
By JR Hoeft | Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | PoliticsAlthough Hillary Clinton narrowly won Indiana tonight, Barack Obama is clearly on his way to becoming the Democratic nominee after a huge win in NC.
There is virtually no way Clinton can overcome the popular vote margins; and it would be extremely controversial for super-delegates to move her way. Tonight was actually a pretty huge defeat for her…Obama netted 10 more delegates and nearly 200,000 more popular votes.
The general election starts now. The only question is when will she concede?
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4 Responses to "Clinton wins Indiana; Obama wins NC"
Tim Russert was suggesting – and I think it makes sense – that she’ll remain in through W.VA KY and OR, but will stop her negative campaigning/ vigorous campaigning. That will give her a few wins (W.VA and probably KY) to go out on a high note.
Ben conceded. Now NLS does have nothing to post about but Gerry Connolly.
I was up around 1 AM when the totals finally came in from Gary & Lake county in IN. For a minute, it looked like Obama might actually take IN, when he suddenly knocked 20K off her 40K lead, with only 28% of Lake reporting, but showing over 2:1 for Obama. This was hours after Clinton gave her ‘victory’ speech. Now that would have been pretty sad…. Fortunately for Clinton the rest of Lake came in with a roughly 50/50 split.
McCain must agree with you Jim, he semes to be campaigning full steam against Obama, and ignoring Clinton.
Jeremy-
Good. It’s about time someone in politics took my advice.
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