Former Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards broke his long silence in the Democratic presidential race tonight. Since he dropped out in January, Edwards has held his tongue as to which candidate he supports.

Tonight, he showed up on stage in Grand Rapids, Mich., with Obama.

Read more about it here.

Of special note is that Edwards will be adding 19 delegates he earned in the first weeks of the race to Obama’s total.

No surprise here, but Hillary Clinton is declaring victory in the West Virginia primary. Right now, the margin looks to be about 63-to-30-percent. Check out results here.

Polls and even Obama himself had long predicted a blowout for Clinton in this state. Polls showed Clinton ahead by as much as 36 percentage points.

This is, nonetheless, a small win. West Virginia is the 37th largest state and has only 39 delegates - not enough make up for the 163-delegate lead that Obama has developed.

Clinton is also heavily favored in Kentucky’s May 20 primary.

Check out our full election night story here.

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.

Local Obama campaign volunteers and supporters left the restaurant watch party fairly optimistic, while Indiana will wait overnight to see the final results. Currently 95% of precincts are reporting, and Clinton leads 51% to Obama’s 49%.

Local volunteers cleared out of Opie Taylor’s as they watched on TV as Hillary began her acceptance speech in Indianapolis around 10:30 p.m. However, most TV networks have still deemed it “too close to call” in Indiana and results will likely continue to come in throughout the night. No matter who wins Indiana, supporters have remained optimistic as Obama still has a sizeable delegate lead and the North Carolina win certainly carries more weight. Some think he still has a chance to seize victory in Indiana as votes continue to be counted in Lake and Union counties.

Check for more updates tomorrow as we hear the final Indiana results.

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.

While addressing a crowd of suppporters in North Carolina, Obama said that in Indiana the victory appeared to be Hillary’s.

At Opie Taylor’s in Bloomington, many local Obama follwers still watch as the margin has narrowed to 52% Clinton, 48% Obama with 82% reporting. Many are hoping for Obama votes from areas that have yet to report, including larger metro areas like Gary and Lafayette, Ind.

After winning North Carolina, Obama addressed a crowd while the local supporters here gathered around 5+ televisions cheering and chanting “Yes We Can” periodically. Local volunteers, many IU students, beamed with admiration as the Democratic hopeful stressed more of the ideals he mentioned at a speech at IU last week, including hard work and equal opportunity for all. “They are not liberal values, they are not conservative values, they are American values,” Obama said. “I love this country too much to see it divided and distracted at this critical moment in history. I know the promise of America because I have lived it.”

Rose Byrne, a local Obama volunteer who will be a senior at IU in the fall, began crying during Obama’s speech when he talked about pulling troops out of Iraq. Just this afternoon Rose found out a friend of hers from high school died while serving in Iraq. “I didn’t really wanna go home and mourn it. I wanted to knock on doors and get someone in office who would change it,” she said. “It’s time to question why we’re there.”

In Indiana, the margin is slim between Clinton, with 53%, and Obama with 47%. 57 percent of the precints are reporting.

The New York Times is reporting in Monroe County that Obama is leading 66% to Hillary’s 34%.

The Obama crowd is extremely energetic, many drinking beer and cheering loudly everytime Obama edges closer into Hillary’s lead. Many have begun a second “Yes We Can” chant.

I was speaking with a man named Larry Friedman who is a professor at both IU and Harvard and works for Obama’s campaign in several states. He was quick to praise the young student volunteers who have worked to support Obama. “These are the heroes- people your age,” he said. He added it reminded him of the 1960s. “(It’s) the same thing I felt in the 60s with Kennedy,” he said. “Sort of a magic charisma that we can somehow make change.”

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