chicagotribune.com - 11/5/2008
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - Lake County did two things Tuesday it couldn't in May: count the votes in a timely fashion and help deliver the state of Indiana to Barack Obama . But problems with absentee ballots in Madison County and late tallies in a handful of precincts prolonged the suspense until well ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/5/2008
dailykos.com - 11/5/2008
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dailykos.com —
Obama's hanging tough, and Lake County (Gary) has
yet to report, Marion County (Indianapolis) is 2% in,...
and St. Joseph's County (South Bend) is only 33% in. These are the Dem strongholds in the state. UPDATE : St. Joseph's now 62% in, Marion 8% in. Overall, 51-48 McCain. It still looks ...
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Indiana - Obama looks great
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Dave Winer: Sarah we hardly knew ye
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... still isn't decided, and I understand that Georgia wasn't decided until very late. Our guy almost won that state too. The whole Red State thing is now questionable. Yes there are still some, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, the Dakotas. But the south with all its newly energized African-American voters and the midwest are now all in play. A new political reality is shaping up, beyond the last four elections -- and that's the stuff of mandates. ...
IN: Despite GOP Warnings of Voter Fraud, "It Was a Good Clean Election."
TPMMuckraker —
... But yesterday, the man who led the Republicans' legal effort in Lake County, party chair John Curley, told the Chicago Tribune: "The election is over and it was a good clean election." ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 11/5/2008 — Just looking at some of the places where we have results in so far. Obama is substantially outperforming Kerry -- which is what he needs to do to win the state, of course, but the differences are pretty substantial. Steuben: Kerry 34%, Obama 42% ...
Indiana Looking Bad?
corner.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — Skip Foster says McCain's looking bad in Indiana. He makes a good case, except he leaves out the fact that Bush won Indiana by 21 points in 2004, which creates a bit more of a cushion in his '04 baseline.
How Obama Turned Indiana Blue
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Obama Takes Lead in Indiana
3bluedudes.com 10/21/2008 — John McCain seems to think he can not worry about New Mexico, Iowa, and Colorado, because he thinks he can take Pennsylvania, how, I have no idea. BUT, that is all centered around the notion they will win all other Battlegrounds. While Florida and Ohion are gravitating back to what they likely ...
Vigo County, Indiana
dailykos.com 11/5/2008 — We've been looking closely at Vigo County, Indiana. Here's why : Democrats are cheered by early numbers showing that Obama holds a healthy lead in Vigo County, a place that one Dem described to us as "the most reliable bellwether county in the country." "Vigo has only been wrong on president ...
Great expectations: Obama will have to deliver
(AP)
news.yahoo.com 11/6/2008 — AP - Over and over, Barack Obama told voters if they stuck with him "we will change this country and change the world." They did, and now their expectations for him to deliver are firmly planted on his shoulders.
Obama Wins Student Mock Election —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/5/2008
Naureen S. Malik reports on the election.
The next generation of voters also gave Barack Obama a landslide victory.
A mock election involving one million of Americas youth–the vast majority of whom are too young to vote–went ...
Rice: 'proud' of Obama's victory —
CNN Political Ticker 11/5/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that the Department of State "will do everything we can" to ensure a smooth transition to President-elect Barack Obama.
While noting that Republican presidential ...
Lieberman: Time to come together —
CNN Political Ticker 11/5/2008
Lieberman says put partisanship aside.
(CNN) — Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman, one of John McCain’s biggest Senate supporters, congratulated Barack Obama Wednesday on winning the presidential election.
"I sincerely congratulate ...
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