Here are the raw numbers from today's primaries. With 99% of precincts reporting, Hillary's 51% to 49% win is a rounding error. Out of one and a quarter million votes, she leads by less than 23,000 votes for an actual tally of 50.49% to 49.51% Right now, with maybe 10-12k votes to be counted, her lead is not 2%, but less than one.

In the popular vote count, if things hold, Obama will add over 230,000 votes to his lead. And in the delegate count, it's looking like he'll net 12 more delegates than Hillary. He could do a bit better or a bit worse, but there's not a huge margin by which these numbers can change.

Hillary's camp will spin it 8 ways from Sunday, and try to claim it was really a major win and validation that she's the candidate who can win the general election, but she's undone and unspun tonight. +12 for the delegate lead and +230,000 for the popular vote lead... for Obama.

Yippee-cai-yeah, Hillary.

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