Delegate update: IN/NC

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:51 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
NBC News has allocated some of the pledged delegates from Indiana and Pennsylvania.

INDIANA: Clinton 35-31 (6 remain to be allocated)
NORTH CAROLINA: Obama 49-42 (24 remain to be allocated)

The Delegate Counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,572-1,415
SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 272.5-256
OVERALL: 1,828-1.687.5

This would put Obama within 197 of the 2,025. (This, of course, does not include Florida and Michigan.)

NOTE: For those tracking popular vote and that metric at home, Obama has likely netted more of the popular vote out of North Carolina than Clinton did in Pennsylvania. With 98% reporting in North Carolina, Obama leads by 225,266 votes. Clinton netted 214,224 out of Pennsylvania.

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Comments

all I can say is that if Obama takes the lead then CBS (who called Indiana for Clinton) will be extremely embarrassed. Love MSNBC...thanks all.

David Vail, Manhattan, Kansas (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:00 AM)

Obama wins in Gary not because he's an African-American. He wins the NE corridor of Indiana because Gary and it's environs is populated by really smart people.

Margo McFarland (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:13 AM)

Where are you getting you numbers from? Billary only netted 20K votes in IN. Obama netted over 225K votes in NC. That comes out to over 200K net votes between the two primaries for Obama.

DK, CA (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:14 AM)

It's 11:06 Houston time and with 28% of Lake County counted Obama leads Clinton 27,991 to 9470 while the statewide total is Clinton ahead 588,106 to 567,149.

Virtually all the remaining untallied votes are in Lake County. Do the math. If the rest of Lake County holds to the same ratio, Obama wins.

HOLD ONTO YER HATS FOLKS !!!!!

TwoClintonsAreNotBetterThanOne Houston TX (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:23 AM)

"Obama wins in Gary not because he's an African-American. He wins the NE corridor of Indiana because Gary and it's environs is populated by really smart people."

Will see how smart you think they are when the Republican sweep the Nation similar to the Carter / Reagan election. Nobama for me. I won't vote for a man that takes his children that preachers the evil white people (neglecting the fact that most arrived after slavery and countless lost their lives fighting to end Slavery.. inconvenient facts)

RAM, Maryland (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:23 AM)

I'm one of the few people who would access this message page that has met Vernon Jordan, Lloyd Culter, Polly Kraft, Joe Kraft, and other politicians of that ilk during the late 1980's, most of whom were playing golf and negotiating nafta at about that time.

Margo McFarland (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:24 AM)

let's be responsible in the analysis. MSNBC did not call out any results. NONE of the media has called a win. The only person who FULLY called it was Hillary. This is very shameful. The are the politics Obama will clear...

He is the nominee.

Hillary has cancelled all her media appointments in the morning.

sem, va (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:27 AM)

I just tuned into FOX news. There's a whole lotta Looooooooooooooong faces over there, knowing they are'nt gonna get a chance to go against the HildaBeast.

They are scared of Barack & his America 1st message & it shows on all there faces.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL !

Rick,Ky (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:30 AM)

How have these pundits made a 180 degree turn in the space of 4.5 hours? Don't get me wrong, I love it!

I'm watching the returns at 12:29 am, and I am having a ball!!!

ET (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:30 AM)

I'm loving the coverage tonight !
Even Pat Buchanan is behaving himself !

Steve B. NewYork NY (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:31 AM)

I would just like to point out that the results of tonight closely resemble the polls two weeks ago, despite the flagrant lies by the clinton campaign and clinton biased media, Obama was never favored in Indiana outside of the statistical margin of error. Therefore, despite the exit polls, the rhetoric, and everything else in the last two weeks of utter poo flinging, nothing has yet to change.

Also, if anything, the gas tax thing screwed clinton, much like it would have screwed america (if it ever had a chance of passing that is).

Chad, Salt Lake City Utah (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:32 AM)

I wish the Clintons would smell the roses and get out of the way,So the real race could begin

J.Behrens,Wichita,Ks (Sent Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:37 AM)

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