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It looks like she ended up winning by just 22,000 votes. A close call and a cliffhanger until the very end.

And now, I might try to get some sleep. I hate diary-entry journalism, but just a note, I started blogging Tuesday’s primary at 10 minutes to midnight on Monday and I am making my last update at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Nine IU students attended Hillary Clinton’s victory rally Tuesday night as a result of their win in an Indiana college campus challenge. The students registered more voters and volunteered more hours than students on any other college campus. Despite her assumed victory, Senator Barack Obama carried Monroe County with nearly two thirds of the votes. However, the IU students for Hillary Clinton said they believed Obama’s appeal to students was not based on educated choices. “The problem is, Obama is increasing voter turnout but not increasing civic engagement,” said freshman Sarah Robinson. Robinson’s sister Laura, also an IU freshman, said she was “constantly amazed at how easy it is to talk someone out of voting for Obama.” However, the Robinsons and the other members of IU Students for Hillary Clinton said they were proud of the work they did for the former first lady’s campaign in Indiana. The student volunteers focused much of their time today not on campaigning on campus, but on increasing visibility in greater Bloomington. They canvassed non-campus precincts and stood outside Wal-Mart, encouraging Bloomington residents to go to the polls.

At 10:30, before any of the major networks had called the Indiana race, Hillary Clinton gave her victory speech to a cheering raucous crowd in the Egyptian Room at the Murat Theatre. Backed by former president Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton, Senator Clinton pounded Barack Obama for his comments last month saying Indiana would be a tie breaker for the democratic primary election. “We’ve come from behind, we’ve broken the tie, and now its full speed to the white house,” Clinton said. Her promises to improve the economy and provide universal health care propelled her to victory in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS— We’re here at the Egyptian room at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis awaiting election results for the Hillary Clinton campaign. So far, precincts show a lead for the former first lady by 4 percent. The Clinton campaign is awaiting the tally of Lake County and its significant black and Chicago influence to the population. All eyes are glued to CNN as the poll results in this pivotal Indiana primary come in and Obama continues to close on Clinton’s early lead in the state. For more from the Clinton HQ, stay tuned.

The party started off on a sour note when CNN called North Carolina in Obama’s favor just seconds after the polls in that state closed. One Clinton volunteer noted the same station called a presidential race incorrectly 8 years ago.

The party is quaint to say the least. 9-15 Clinton volunteers have trickled in and out since me and the photog got here.

IU graduate Olivia Morales is one of the volunteers at the party. She said the low-key get together is representative of the campaign Clinton has run the entire race. It’s about results, not flash, she said in reference to the Hollywood campaign Clinton’s opponent has run up to this point.

The local campaign coordinator should be arriving shortly, volunteers said.

More to come later

Alec Bates graduated from IU last Saturday but decided to stay in Bloomington until the primary was over. A New York native, Bates voted for Clinton for the NY senate and has “always been a fan of the Clintons.” He said he has respect for Clinton’s opponent, Barack Obama, but feels he’s too much of an idealist that does not effectively explain how he will get campaign promises accomplished.

College students identify with Obama because we are idealists too, he said. Bates wants somebody in office with a little more political experience, someone like Hillary Clinton.

Bates also talked about the grunt work he did for the campaign, such as neighborhood canvassing and calling folks to get them to vote.

Neighborhood Canvassing

This entails going door-to-door asking citizens for their vote. The campaign gives volunteers like Bates info about the people behind the doors he knocks on such as their address, their names, their ages, and their political party. Bates said sometimes people invite him in and listen to what he has to say about Clinton so he has to stay sharp.

“Face-to-face is more personal than a phone call,” he said.

Phones calls are another campaign duty for volunteers like Bates.

Calling voters

Today, volunteers like Bates have mostly been calling potential voters, which Bates explains works like this:

First, the volunteer calls an 800 number that will call into a network of voters in Indiana. Today however, the network (for the Bloomington office, anyway) has been limited to voters in the ninth congressional district. Once connected to a potential voter, volunteers introduce themselves as volunteers for the Clinton campaign and ask the voter at the other end of the phone if they have or plan on voting today. The procedure after the call depends on what the voter says over the phone. The Volunteer does not hang up the phone but rather, waits until the voter hangs up. Then the Clinton Volunteer enter’s information into the 800 number. That information is as follows:

“Already voted for Hillary,” “Hillary supporter but has not yet voted,” “undecided,” “supports Obama,” or “answering machine, call back later.”

Volunteers sometimes spend entire days on the phone, and there are at least three volunteers right now still making calls.

It’s all in a days work.

I’m blogging live once again from Hillary Headquarters in Bloomington Indiana. Volunteers are optimistic Hillary has all but secured a victory in Indiana.

Still, they are not wasting this last hour in pre-celebration. Volunteers are still hard at work calling potential voters to make sure they either voted for or plan to vote for their candidate.

Volunteer Andrew Franczyk is not yet old enough to vote, but that does not stop him from supporting the candidate he trusts “will lead the nation down a new path that will make it better for the world.” Today Franczyk was at the corner of third and the bypass holding a “Vote Hillary” sign.

“Most people honked in support but some people were being ignorant,” he said.

A member of Clinton’s local campaign confirmed there will be a poll-closing celebration at Greek’s Pizza at 6:30 p.m. The local volunteers plan to watch the results come in on the news and relax after a hard-fought campaign.

More to come….

Hillary’s campaign office is an old home sitting on the corner of Walnut and 17th. Signs like “It takes a Clinton to Clean up after a bush” and “Next stop whitehouse” adorn the walls along with maps, schedules and calling regimens. The office seems to be running like a well-oiled machine thanks to local campaign coordinator Emma Lieberth.

Currently Lieberth is buzzing around making calls. She took a time-out for an apple and to talk to me about the campaign. The staff will be at Greek’s pizzeria tonight to watch the results come in, she said. All Hillary supporters should meet them there.

The volunteer staff here at the Hillary Campaign Office have been working hard since 6 a.m. when the voting polls open. They are busy calling both Clinton supporters and voters the state has deemed “undecided.” Energy is high, and everyone here is working with a purpose.

David Vandeventen is local volunteer for the Clinton campaign and he’s also a certified poll watcher. That is, he has free reign at the polling places to get vote totals, check voting machines, pretty much whatever he wants. In fact, preventing access to Vandeventen is a class D felony, he says. Hopefully he’ll share the vote totals with the IDS when the polls close at six p.m.

I’m leaving the Clinton HQ now to meet up with one of my Politiker blogmates, Michael Zennie, to get some poll information from the Justice Building. More to come….