Combined results #15

Indiana

88 percent reporting

          %    Dels
Clinton  52     15
Obama    48     11

Vote margin: 40,311

North Carolina (Winner: Obama)

98 percent reporting

          %    Dels
Obama    56     31
Clinton  42     20

Vote margin: 224,481

Remember my theory about mayoral machines? Well, Gary's mayor is predicting a big surprise:

"Let me tell you, when all the votes are counted, when Gary comes in, I think you're looking at something for the world to see," Clay, an Obama supporter, said in a telephone interview from Obama's Gary headquarters. "I don't know what the numbers are yet, but Gary has absolutely produced in large numbers for Obama here."

Clay said the results were late coming in from Lake County because of the large numbers of absentee ballots that had to be counted -- about 11,000. Under local practice, all of the cartridges from voting machines in Gary and nearby East Chicago are first collected at the local airport before being driven to the county headquarters to be tallied with the results from the rest of the county, he said. He said there were no major technical problems holding up the count.

"It takes a little time. We want to be sure that every vote is counted fair and right," he said. "I just talked to the director out there and they are working like junkyard dogs to get that done as soon as possible. They are taking some time but I told them to do it right. That's what taking the time."

"Local practice"? There's no reason to withhold the total vote until absentees are counted. The optics of this look rotten, no matter how legitimate the vote count might actual be.

Update: CBS never wavered from calling Indiana for Clinton. I SOOOOO want them to be embarrassed.