Gary Indiana Mayor: Possible Upset Coming In Indiana Vote Tally?

Is a dramatic political night about to get more dramatic? Gary Indiana’s mayor is suggesting that when the votes from his county are tallied, Senator Barack Obama could win the Indiana primary:

As the fate of a nailbiter Indiana primary — and possibly the course of the Democratic race — hung on his city, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary, and said tonight his city had turned out so overwhelmingly for Barack Obama that it might just be enough to close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“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.

Interesting…but at this point we’re leaving up our post that has CBS calling it narrowly for Clinton. If it changes, we’ll do a new post.

And if it changes and it does happen — it would be a “game changer.” In terms of campaign contributions alone, it’s hard to see how the Clinton campaign could continue much longer if there were two losses tonight. A narrow win is one thing; a loss is another.