I’m calling it. With only 28% of Lake County precincts reporting, Obama trails by a mere 20,000 votes. He picked up a net +18,000 votes just from that initial 28%. It’s over. Obama dealt Clinton the death blow. At long last!!
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Don’t jinx it!!! But there is reason to hope, indeed!
CNN is reporting numbers from Gary ….
oy! are you blogging under the influence of benedryl? don’t jinx it!
There’s no jinx. He’s going to win this with room to spare.
If you’re right, I will buy you a beer before I leave Philadelphia.
38,000 votes from the first 28% of precincts reporting? That’s over 170,000 votes, or 120,000 votes remaining. He doesn’t even need to pull 60% of the remainder to get it.
Not necessarily; that’s the percentage of precincts in – not the percentage of votes in.
Lake County: 316 of 561 precints reporting almost all of GAry and Merriville and portion of Munster:The Times, Indiana
Obama 46,759
Clinton 25,100
link downthread
Your prediction is making the rounds, BTW. Even at the mydd – where rational is the ULTIMATE rationale, unless you’re a Hilbot, and then, well, you just throw facts out the window.
But Bless You, booman – I’m currently listening to the power of the Foo, and jamming on this most GLORIOUS of nights, and I love reading this projection!
Unrelated – why does ‘booman’ come up a mis-spelled word? Tonight, it’s the TRUTH!
I am listening to Cyndi Lauper’s Sisters of Avalon. LOL Of course I have the itunes on shuffle.
And a third of Bloomington still needs to report.
This mean I have to eat my hand and bow before the Zogster?
I guess you’re not superstitious. You just made me cringe when I read those words. EEEK!
Fingers crossed. Still. I’ve been quiet tonight because I don’t wanna jinx it.
I think you’re right.
Hillary just cancelled her morning show appearances.
too and that surely is a signal that Obama will be the next President of The United States. I have hope for our country again.
That’s what convinced me.
Woo-hoo…
The Drudge, Hillaryland’s media department:
is reporting “Hillary plans to huddle with undecided super-delegates tomorrow; gauging if she can go on….developing”
Hmm, she cancelled all public appearances!
btw the Drudge has Obama as the nominee, joins Russert- MSNBC, Chuck Todd
She did??? Wow!
Russert just made sense again of her bowing out after she wins Kentucky and he wins Oregon. Lanny Davis is an idiot.
CNN just said that Gary turned all of their votes in already in part of the first dump.
Obama can only continue to gain.
Go go go Obama! If you are right, and I think you are, this is the night we begin a new time for America. I feel like when I heard the Supreme Court ruling on Gore/Bush. Only the opposite.
We need a bee-stung BooMan calls Indiana song.
a baby bumble bee. Won’t Obama be so proud of me..yep, yep!!
ah, you gave me an idea. Jose Feliciano – Flight of The Bumble Bee!
it may have just ended tonight.
probably a new firewall state, a new line, a new excuse to stay in the race. I wish she would just exit graciously. I’d send her money to pay off her debt.
“we now know who the democratic nominee will be” WOW!!
That startled me too.
Pumkinhead just said Obama is the nominee. And she has canceled all public appearances, not just TV, all public appearances.
WHAT?????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoNH5Z3jqhk&feature=related
The first totals from Lake County,
316 precincts out of 561 reporting.
Almost all of Gary and Merrillville and portion of Munster primarily make up these numbers, plus Lake Station, East Chicago:
Lake county
Democratic candidates
President of the
United States
Barack Obama 46,759
Hillary Clinton 25,100
CNN needs to muzzle this Hammond mayor.
in other news, Barry Welsh kicked butt in IN-06
Hot Damn!!!!! He is a gre3at guy and I hope he wins in November!!!!!
don’t know if anyone caught this, from Al Giordano: The Democratic nominee for president will make the acceptance speech in August on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. Which King delivered on August 28th, 1963.
Take A Bow By Madonna
I dedicate this to Hillary especially the line “This show is over say goodbye.”
Posted the same thing
Great Minds think a like!!!! I am saving mine for the final numbers and then I plan to have a blast.
On my computer in the living room. When she finally bows out, I’m going to blast that bad boy. Then I’m going to walk into my backyard and blast it so that my neighbor behind me (a Bill Clinton fan) could hear it.
Not to beat a dead horse, but the Big Brown/Eight Belles analogy comes even more to mind.
You so punny.
😀
Hey, Fabooj – are you going to join me Saturday to register voters???
I could make excuses about how filled up my Saturdays are for the next 3 months, but I’m really no good with voter registration. Apparently, I antagonize people just by sitting there.
How y’all doin’ tonight?
Huh?
HUH???????????????
Sorry, man.
with 99% reporting MSNBC just called it for Hillary.
ah well. Maybe I’ll wake up in the morning and they will be wrong.
MSNBC called it for Clinton
Clinton 51% – 637,389
Obama 49% – 615,370
99% reporting
DAMN!!!!
<2% when she needed a blow out….they’ll try to spin it as a major coup, but it’s over.
we will now find out just how bereft of ethics and morals the clintons really are…my money’s on her staying in, at least thru 31 may.
l would love to be surprised.
It will be interesting to see how many people participated in Rush Gasbag’s Operation Chaos versus the final margin
There are still 3 counties that are Obama counties only reporting 98%, but the count from Lake county is 55% Obama 45% Clinton with 98% counted.
Assuming she can get the money together to continue at all, I think May 20, when she gets stomped out in Oregon and simultaneously has to reveal her financial condition. But she may not have the money to do anything much beyond this. We shall see.
good point….since less than 2 minutes into her speech tonight it was “send money”.
they’re bankrupt….in many ways.
if the supers start to turn based on todays results, it may be enough to end it.
if she stays in now, it’s only because of vindictiveness, imnsho.
new count
Clinton 637,389
Obama 615,370 with 99% of the vote in
Dang. Now they’re all calling it for Clinton. What happened to those “200,000” votes outstanding?
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