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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! Did you fall asleep in front of the television last night waiting for someone besides CBS to call Indiana? Or are you more normal than I am? Anyway, so, it was a win for each Democrat, but maybe really a loss for one, and everyone is puzzling over the results in the Republican race&amp;amp;#8212;yes, there was a Republican primary last night, too. All that, plus next steps are after the jump. Join me!Obama Wins in North Carolina Barack Obama won a sweeping victory in North Carolina last night, besting Hillary Clinton 56%-42%. His win might not be that big a deal if she hadn&amp;#x27;t been swearing it would be closer and didn&amp;#x27;t need to prove that he was losing his appeal, but since she did, it is a big deal, but it&amp;#x27;s not the big story today because of Indiana . . . Indiana Goes For Hillary by a Bumper Clinton did, however, win in Indiana, as was widely predicted. What was not predicted is that it would be by about 30,000 votes, or that most news sources would refuse to call the race based on exit polls, or that it would only net her one delegate more than Obama. Her narrow victory led a number of people, Tim Russert among them, to declare the race over. According to MSNBC this morning, even if one counts the results from Florida and Michigan, Obama today would still have a pledged delegate and a popular vote lead. According to their figures, only by winning the remaining primaries by margins of 75 percent could Clinton retake the lead. That&amp;#x27;s not good. Other Bad News For Clinton According to news reports, Clinton&amp;#x27;s campaign is back in serious debt and she initially canceled all public appearances today (before rescheduling one in West Virginia). Most people are now wondering if she will spend the day deciding whether to stay in the race. McCain&amp;#x27;s Losses The actual loser of the night, though, seems to have been John McCain, who&amp;amp;#8212;despite facing zero competition&amp;amp;#8212;cannot convince more than 75 percent of Republican voters who aren&amp;#x27;t part of Operation Chaos to vote for him. Maybe the Democrats will get lucky and those margins will remain through the general election. So, where do the Democrats go from here? Should Clinton stay in and fight for more superdelegates? Should she get out? Might the &amp;amp;quot;dream ticket&amp;amp;quot; really be revived with Clinton in the VP slot? And how mad can Republicans really still be at McCain&amp;amp;#8212;mad enough to deliver the race to the Democrats? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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