John King is at the magic map on CNN, and just took viewers on a tour of Indiana. The current tally shows Obama and McCain running neck and neck. But King showed how the big Democratic precincts around Gary have not been counted, and how Obama is running far ahead of John Kerry—and even, in some cases, ahead of 2004 victor George W. Bush's performance—in rural Indiana counties. Not good news for McCain.
John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.
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