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YIKES OBAMA JUST GOT 28,000 INDIANA VOTES. The mysterious "Lake County" just released 20% of its votes ... and now the state total is Obama 49% v. Hillary 51%. We will keep updating this. Okay, the gap is now NINETEEN THOUSAND VOTES. All the remaining votes — most of them, at least, according to our Numbers King John CNN King — are in Gary.
Do you know about Gary? Do you know black Gary is? Barack got 75% of that first batch, that's how black. ALL the Jackson brothers and sisters are from Gary, plus Morgan Freeman, that's how black.
11:54 PM — Too tired/drunk for a fancy "live blog," so we'll just do what we're doing. Your co-editors are in the "special chat room" with your editor. So we will paste some stuff in, from them.
11:55 PM — If they can actually type.
11:57 PM — Anderson Cooper to John King, just now: "You're like the Rain Man of politics."
12:00 MIDNIGHT — Oh they dug up Larry King, got his muppeteer, and here we go.
12:01 — It's special that "count all the votes" is going to become the 2008 primary call of idiocy, too.
JIM NEWELL — "who'd you rather fuck: Chuck Todd, or Jesus?"
12:10 AM — For Obama it has gone from 1776 to 1816. What important numerology thing happened in 1816?
Jim N.
tim russert was just like, "we know who gon be the democratic nominee, there's no disputing it." so authoritative!
Sara S.
"she has some real soul-searching to do." Like she has a SOUL.
Sara S.
God, they are loving this.
12:32 AM — Still 19,000 votes between Barack and Hillary, in Indiana, with 92% reporting, and 1.15 million votes counted.
12:33 AM — John King is now playing World of Warcraft on that creepy Indiana map
12:35 AM — Now it's down to 16,000 votes between them?
12:36 AM — So Barack can still win, but good god it would be close. Hillary may hang onto this thing, her "tiebreaker," which ends her campaign.
12:44 AM — Ha, so Larry King really is John King's great grandfather.
12:45 AM — And we wait.
12:54 AM — Now Anderson Cooper is crank-calling the mayor of Gary, Indiana, or something.
12:54 AM — They are counting absentee votes, because you want to do that as late as possible, long after the polls close, and then "brought the equipment to the airport."
12:55 AM — Early voting apparently overwhelmed this county.
12:55 AM — Not just early voting, but ELEVEN THOUSAND VOTES. What are they counting them with, Michael Jackson's homeless zoo animals?
12:59 AM — John King: "I'm going to try one more time, Mr. Mayor." (Mayor McCheese keeps repeating the number 11,000, like it is a crazy unheard of number, and then he says "disenfranchised" a lot.)
1:03 AM — Still a 16,000 vote gap.
1:04 AM — Wolf Blitzer is still confused as to why the mush-mouth mayor can't explain why his county won't count votes. Wolf is getting PISSED because it is like 5 a.m. in Washington.
1:05 AM — "Something corrupt may be happening." — Mayor Tom McDermott, Hammond, Indiana.
1:07 AM — Mayor Clay: "There is no hanky panky going on here in Lake County."
1:07 AM — Clay is an Obama supporter, McDermott is a Hillary supporter.
1:07 AM — Ha, there is something weird going on.
1:08 AM — Where is Katherine Harris?
1:08 AM — Suddenly we're at 98% of Lake County, and Barack is now 55-45.
1:09 AM — Clinton is still winning with 18,000 votes?
1:10 AM — Hillary is going to take Indiana?
1:11 AM — The hilarious mayor of Gary, Indiana, is STILL on the phone.
1:13 AM — So Hillary gets 37 delegates in Indiana, and Obama gets 35.
Comments
I know it can't hold up throughout the county...but I can't even wrap words around how much I would love a Big O upset. Clearly need another drink.
19,000 is how many people bought the last Mellenkamp album. It could go either way.
Again: When will she take her balls and go home?
Thank you for staying up, Ken.
Come on guys. You're dissing her only because you can't handle a Strong Woman.
@Cicada: Well said. I second.
+ Watch video
@Crazydogggz: I can handle a strong woman. It's the three-balled hermaphrodites that I have trouble with.
@LuxMentis: It's like sports, now.
@Cicada: Isn't it like 8 PM where Ken is, out west?
C'mon, Lake County!
@jagorev: It's 9pm here in Los Angeles, unless I'm passed out, hallucinating and my clocks are all wrong.
What's with the Lake County votes being tossed? Does this mean the nomination will be held up (even more) by the pending lawsuit, Clinton v. Everybody?
Ken's just leaving the lights on at the asylum at this point.
@Crazydogggz: That, and the fact that she's a condom stuffed with cactus who is fucking up Barry's chance to lead us to the promised land.
@nachoproblem: Instances of Clinton-based election litigation are called pantsuits.
8:57 here in Walnuts! country.
@tunamelt: Do you have a habit of passing out and hallucinating on a Tuesday evening? If so, are you available?
@jagorev: It's Tuesday?!
@jagorev: You're right. Cancel those thanks, Ken. You will earn them when the final Lake County results come in in three hours.
announce something at midnight, goddammit, so i can celebrate, throw up, and pass out on the couch!
75/25 with 28% reporting..
@Crazydogggz: I'm dissing her because she has run one of the shittiest campaigns I've ever seen and I'm from Maryland, I know shitty campaigns.
NYTimes + CNN has Monroe County (Bloomington, IU) sitting at 68% reporting. More college students in Bloomington than white people in Gary?
@tunamelt: Wednesday here on the east coast, and we're still waiting for some guy called Gary.
The Jackson 5 could tip this thing.
Could it be that our long liberal nightmare is finally over? Go Barry!
ha, ha, indiana is going to be the tiebreaker after all, stupid cheering clintards
@tunamelt: It is 9pm in our part of the universe. But maybe he's posting from a secret party boat offshore in international waters -- you know, so they can't "get" him.
OMG so many people awake! This election is turning into a total THRILLER.
C'mon Lake County. This is the point in the night when I should be peeping in my neighbor's window...
Let's fucking go!
NYT:
When paired with Mr. Obama's comfortable victory in North Carolina, a bigger state, Mrs. Clinton's performance in Indiana did not seem to be enough to cut into Mr. Obama's lead in pledged delegates or in his overall lead in the popular vote. And because Mrs. Clinton did not appear to come particularly close in North Carolina, despite a substantial effort there, she lost an opportunity to sow new doubts among Democratic leaders about Mr. Obama's general-election appeal.
Ouch.
C-Span has Hillary doin' shots of Crown Royal at the local teamsters' hall.
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: What a coincidence; this is the point in the night when I should be peeing in my neighbor's window.
@ronaldpagan: @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Fuck yeah!!!
Gary, Indiana!
What a wonderful name,
Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame.
Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say,
Trips along softly on the tongue this way--
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
Let me say it once again.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
That's the town that "knew me when."
If you'd like to have a logical explanation
How I happened on this elegant syncopation,
I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one place
That can light my face.
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but--
Gary, Indiana,
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
My home sweet home.
Okay, wait, 'Numbers God' Todd is speaking..
Sorry. I have very poor impulse control when it comes to musicals.
Holy crap. Holy EVERYTHING, guys. 20K votes in 28%???
He's going to do it. And tomorrow? He's going to DROWN in money!
Every time someone says Gary, Indiana, I start humming the song from the Music Man. I wish they could just start using a code word--like, the place where the black people live.
@Dave J.: Notice the word "performance". She's about to lose. She is about to lose Indiana, guys!!!!
All I know about Gary I learned from Michael Jackson's made-for-tv movie.
So it's full of black Jehovah's witnesses who write love songs to rats, right? That must play to Barry somehow.
@Senator Boomdog: Wait, I wanna pee in a window..
@tunamelt: Tweety would say where the "ethnics" live.
@san antone rose: That song is slowly driving me insane.
Is this CNN Live thing on the computer actually live CNN?
i feel like the people at msnbc drink as much as we do. they actually seem to have fun.
Something for fact fans:
Lake County according the US census is 26.1% black.
Okay, everyone, Matt Drudge has decided that Obama is the nominee. We can all go to bed now.
@Cicada: He forgot his Irish Philly soul for a second..
Why is this podunk mayor on cnn basically accusing the Gary machine of election fraud? Doesn't he realize this is a lower stakes crap shoot than the time Grandma took the bus to Atlantic City?
The whole rigged election theme is so fucking implausible.
Damn, fuck, piss, shit...92% of the vote counted and she still leads by around 20K votes. It would have been SO sweet if Barry did a double.
Numbers God has spoken..
Who is this asshole Gary and why won't he vote so I can go to bed?
OMG IT COULD ALL BE OVER PLEASE DEAR GOD KILL THE BITCH NOW
@rogadelic: Gary Indiana is a stubborn old bastard. He is a bitter elitist.
@tunamelt: it's always been like sports.
(read in a college teachery voice - ) I refer you to Mr. Dr. Hunter Stockton Thompson's seminal canonical tome, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 -
all those football references.
It's always been a game. It always will be.
The tragedy, of course, being, the results are never a game.
@iwontsavethispatient: Maybe you're just reading the census wrong. Maybe they mean it literally, like Lake County itself has a lot of running tracks and tar pits.
@Cicada: Great, now I have an image of all the black folks in brightly-colored burkas and wooden clogs, or something.
This will haunt me.
whoa @ Tim Russert's "We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be..."
I want to give Chuck Todd a smooch on the cheek.
Whoa! Russert just said Obama's clinched the nomination.
@Cicada: Charlie Cook called Obama 'maybe too exotic' on Charlie Rose earlier.
@tunamelt: Already there, baby. Already there. If this primary crap doesn't end soon I'm gonna infect everyone with the Trouble in River City song. Trouble with a capital T that rhymes with P and that stands for POOOOOOOL!
*special chat room* is beer and vomit soaked Barka love seat in the boiler room, Ken? Ken?
@rogadelic: He's Dani California's creepy uncle.
Yep!
Time to hang up yer balls, Hillz!
It's like 2000 all over again, but in a good way! Must Not Pass Out, Must Not Pass Out...
@jagorev: Well, if Drudge says so... I'm taking this opportuntity to leave for an hour and do... "real life things."
OMG! Her lead is a wash even if you give the greedy pig her so called Michigan and Florida fucking votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Matthews is off my shitlist. My love for Keith is all hot and bothered, where the Hell is that "Boiler Room"? I want to be there with Keith to celebrate ..............SHIT!! Tim is reading Willary's obit now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@hageesheart:
Trust in the classics.
Here's my favorite part of the Indiana vote:
Huckabee
40,055
10%
Paul
30,059
7%
Romney
19,004
5%
John Aravosis, my politics patron saint, says Russert says that Hillary lost. Aravosis also says that now that the media has finally turned on her, it's finally freaking over.
No publik appearances for Hilz tomorrow--Burn Bitch Burn!!!
@JerkCade: Let's make a list of inane terms that allude to race without explicitly stating it.
I'll start:
Urban
C'mon Big Brown FTW!
Ready the Glue Gun, Elmer's has a fresh shipment tomorrow!
was that just an I Love Lucy reference on CNN? i wanna be on CNN.