Yawn, Numbers

Half hour to go before the Lake County, Ind. results come in. That's Gary, baby, Barack country. Some pro-Obama types think he could cut the gap to 2 points.
Why so late? They're counting 11,000 absentees. Where I come from, they count late absentees over the next week. Jeesh.

As of 8:40 p.m. CDT, about half of 11,370 absentee and early voting ballots had been counted, said Michelle Fajman, the county’s elections supervisor. By contrast, in the 2000 presidential primary, 2,822 early and absentee votes were cast in Lake County. In the 2004 primary, 4,053 early and absentee votes were cast.

“This has far and away surpassed any primary we’ve ever had. We don’t see these kinds of numbers until a general election,” Fajman said.

In the meantime, his campaign thinks it will be all over in two weeks on May 20, when he sweeps Oregon and Hillary takes Kentucky. But the Oregon win puts him over the 50 percent mark of pledged delegates, able to make a case to the Supers that it's time to step up.
As of tonight's results (so far), Obama gets 42 delegates, Hillary gets 35. His gain makes up for her win in Pennsylvania.