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Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama in the Indiana delegate hunt on Tuesday, 38 to 34. Add on the committed super delegates and Clinton has a 42-39 Indiana lead. It comes despite her narrow 14,000 vote victory over Barack Obama, who carried only nine of Indiana’s 92 counties. Clinton picked up four delegates in the 8th and 9th CDs; three delegates in the 1st, 2nd, and 6th; and two delegates in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th. Obama picked up 4 delegates in the 7th CD; three delegates in the 1st and 2nd; and two delegates in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th CDs. The two candidates split the statewide delegates 8 apiece, said Indiana Democratic Chairman Dan Parker. Clinton also holds a lead in the party leader/elected officials by a 5 to 4 margin. "The three districts that the Democrats won to help take back Congress were won by Hillary Clinton," said Parker of districts held by U.S. Reps. Baron Hill, Brad Ellsworth and Joe Donnelly. "Two of them overwhelmningly." He was talking about the 8th and 9th CDs. Clinton got 61 percent of the vote in the 9th, represented by Hill and once by former congressman Lee Hamilton, both who backed Obama. Parker added, "Obama lost this race in his own backyard. In the First, he only carried it 53-47 percent." In the 6th CD, Clinton carried 59 percent of the vote. Parker will have one additional delegate to award Clinton, who he endorsed, at the Indiana Democratic Convention, which will likely go to former Gov. Joe Kernan. Once that happens, Clinton would have a 43-39 lead. Donnelly, Ellsworth and U.S. Rep. Pete Viscklosky are still uncommitted. Clinton is shown here at her victory rally at the Murat in Indianapolis Tuesday night. (HPI Photo by A. Walker Shaw)
Tags: Barack Obama, Baron Hill, Brad Ellsworth, Dan Parker, Hillary Clinton, Joe Donnelly, Joe Kernan
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