With most 85% of precincts reporting in Indiana, Hillary Clinton holds a narrowing 4% lead over Barack Obama. Final results, however, will not be known until around 12:00 Eastern, when Lake County, an Obama stronghold on the Illinois border featuring the heavily African American city of Gary, reports. The city is still counting several thousand absentee ballots and has withheld all results until these are totaled.
Not only is Lake County the Hoosier State's second largest, it is also in the greater Chicago area, and its residents are largely familiar with, and supportive of, the Illinois Senator.
While it would be very difficult for Obama to earn a large enough margin of victory in Lake County to edge Clinton, it is not mathematically impossible. The story line from election night, however, remains Clinton's narrower than expected Indiana victory, Obama's larger than projected triumph in North Carolina, and the rousing speech Senator Obama delivered to ecstatic North Carolina supporters, which sounds more like a war cry for November than a call for success in the few remaining weeks of the Democratic nomination battle.
This blogger is headed to bed soon but will report back tomorrow with complete Indiana results. Stop back by!
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