Clinton ekes out win in Indiana, barely
Hillary Clinton will get the win -- barely -- that she needs in Indiana to stay in the presidential race, the TV networks just declared.
But the suspense lasted much longer -- into the wee hours this morning -- and the margin was far smaller than Clinton wanted.
The final result -- after 1 a.m., seven hours after most polls closed -- was delayed because networks were waiting for precincts to report in some expected Barack Obama strongholds in the county near his hometown of Chicago. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton had 51 percent to Obama's 49 percent.
She added another industrial state to her column, which already includes Ohio and Pennsylvania, with her increasingly populist campaign. She will argue that her appeal to working class white voters gives her reason enough to keep going.
Accounting for Obama's projected double-digit win in North Carolina, however, she fell further behind in delegates. He led by about 140 heading into today's primaries.
But with only a narrow victory in Indiana, Clinton's campaign could have trouble raising money, and more party leaders could urge her to withdraw. After her big win in Pennsylvania two weeks ago, Clinton replenished her campaign coffers with a surge of online donations and she surged in the polls.
let us all hope this is the end of her run. i have lost a lot of respect for her during this race given her dirty politics.
I Love clinton and want her to be the president of united states
GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Between her comments about faux sniper fire in Bosnia, and obliterating Iran if they attack Israel, Hillary is proving to be just as much of a power hungry Commander-in-Chief wannabe as W. The only minor differnces seem to be the pantsuit and a little estrogen.
Hillary's no doubt getting a lot of donations from Republicans who love her Obama slime tactics.
Clinton is DOOOMED! She does NOT hold the popular vote, she does NOT hold the lead in Deligates, and if she WERE to win Indiana, it would not be worth anything to the victory in North Carolina. Obama is our next president people, just get used to it.
She should drop out and save the Democratic party . Cracks of divisions are apparent even to a moron!
First.
That's all she wrote.....
Finally...lets get this show on the road!
I am a fairly conservative 30 yo white male. I will vote for Obama against McCain, but I cannot vote for Clinton. She is much more intelligent than our current president, but like him I think she has a very difficult time compromising. We need a commander and chief who can compromise. Both Obama and McCain can do so.
She will send more of you jobs out and her company's will call in on the money she got. Indiana you deserve what you vote for. Heads up your ass again.
Obama has a lead in delegates but he needed a lot of help from the DNC to get it. First of all if you take oh how about 6-10 of Obamas best states out of play which is about equal to Clinton and Florida and Michigan then see what happens to his delegate count. It evaporates into thin air. That is not an outrageous statement since by the way two large, delegate rich states which Clinton won hands down were in effect taken away from her. She can't help it if she carried those states, the voters voted for her and against Obama. By the way try not counting those voters and watch McCain win over Obama. If all you want is for Obama to win the nomination then don't count Florida and Michigan. If you want to win in the general election then count them and see what happens. Otherwise what you have is the first affirmative action candidate for president.
Even if she wins Indiana, it won't change the fact that for the past several weeks she has been hurting her own party's chances for the presidency. Shouldn't someone point out that she might be trying to sabotage Obama because she knows if he wins, in all likelyhood, Obama will be in office for 8 years and by that time her chances of running for President are most likely lost, being that she will be so much older, and that if McCain wins its less likely that he will be elected for two terms so in 4 years she could run again? I mean haven't supposedly objective individuals in office asked her nicely to bow out of the race? If that is the case she wouldn't be so much a fighter, as she would be stubborn, selfish, and power hungry, which of course we all have a bit of, but it would seem she is controlled by those attributes. Just a thought:)
why hasn't anyone talked about the relation of rev. wrigth to hillary?
Steve Wade:
Florida and Michigan were not "in effect taken away from her." They were told in advance that their elections would not be counted, a move that Hillary supported at the time. In Michigan, Obama "cannot help it" if Clinton won, since he wasn't even on the ballot. And given the significant effect that the candidates' campaigning has had on election outcomes, Florida is not valid either since neither candidate had an opportunity to visit the state.
MI and FL may complain about being "disenfranchised," but if you count them, consider every person in America who voted for Obama to be disenfranchised, because counting them now would be, in effect, changing the rules after the fact to benefit Clinton. And that is absolutely unfair.
Let the nomination play all the way through and let the States left have a say so in this. If Hillary bows out that takes basic rights away from remaining states.
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