This is exciting, but I think I have to go to bed now

Obama takes North Carolina convincingly (56% to 42%), and at 10.25pm mountain time, Indiana has tightened to a 2%-point lead for Clinton. She declared victory when it was more like 8%, before anyone else but CBS had called it for her, but Lake County, which includes Gary, hadn't yet reported.

I've been following the blogs, and the local paper's got Barack gaining about 26,000 votes with just over half the total precincts in.

Still a long shot, it now at least seems likely he could win the state.

There's been plenty of commentary so far, but the quote in the last para of Zeleny's late piece says what I've been trying to say for a while:

• “There is a lot of misinformation that is being disseminated right now about Barack Obama,” said Owen Griffith, 63, a retired teacher from Union City, Ind., echoing the sentiment of dozens of voters interviewed. “People, if they have a prejudice — no matter what it is, whether it’s religious, racial or whatever it is — are going to use that to justify not voting for him.”