Well We Did IT IN NC….. Clinton leads in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama swept to victory in the North Carolina primary Tuesday night and declared he was closing in on the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton led narrowly in Indiana, struggling to halt her rival’s march into history.

“Tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from winning the Democratic nomination for president of the United States,” Obama told a raucous rally in Raleigh, N.C. — and left no doubt he intended to claim the prize.He said it appeared Clinton had won Indiana’s primary. Thousands of votes had yet to be counted, principally in Lake County, a heavily black area not far from Obama’s home city of Chicago.Returns from 62 percent of North Carolina precincts showed Obama was winning 56 percent of the vote to 42 percent for Clinton, a triumph that mirrored his earlier wins in Southern states with large black populations.Obama won at least 40 delegates and Clinton at least 31 in the two states, with 116 still to be awarded.