Listening to the national pundits talking, it's clear that Senator Obama has had a rough few weeks. There was what is being called "bittergate," wherein Obama stated that rural voters are "bitter" and the soundbyte was replayed endlessly on all major news outlets. Then more controversy from a renewed frenzy on Obama's former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright's comments and questions on his ties to Bill Ayers.

Senator Hillary Clinton has continued to suffer blows from her comments on was she/was she not under sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia. And more recently, the controversy over her support, which she shares with the presumptive Republican nominee Senator John  
McCain, of a gas-tax lift. The Clinton campaign continues to push for Michigan and Florida primaries to count.

The case for both candidates to the super-delegates relies on these states and the margins in which they win or lose the primary. It has been widely predicted that Obama would win North Carolina and Clinton would win Indiana.

Minutes after the North Carolina polls closed, CNN called Senator Barack Obama the winner of North Carolina. The quick projection was the result of a large margin in CNN's exit polls making it clear that Obama would come out in first. The total amount of pledged delegates up for grabs in North Carolina is 115 pledged delegates. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Obama will gain 44 delegates and Clinton 35.

The Indiana race took a bit longer to name a victor. Senator Obama congratulated Senator Clinton on an "apparent" win in Indiana during a speech given in Raleigh, North Carolina thanking his supporters in North Carolina. This speech was given before any projections were made for her win. During his speech, tallies came in narrowing the margin between the two candidates to only 4 percent with around 70 percent of the precincts reporting. CBS was the only network willing to call Indiana for Clinton early on. Clinton accepted the win during her speech. But for everyone else, all eyes were on Lake County as they held their  results while tallying approximately 12,000 absentee ballots. With those numbers released now, Senator Clinton is indeed being projected by CNN to win Indiana with a very narrow margin of 2 percent. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting in Indiana, she will gain 34 delegates and Obama will receive 30.

Next week's Democratic contest in West Virginia will decide the fate of 39 delegates. On May 20 Oregon and Kentucky's primary will award a combined 125 delegates.

On the less suspenseful Republican side, Senator John McCain brought in 78 percent of the Republican vote. Mike Huckabee took 10 percent, Ron Paul 8 percent, and Mitt Romney 5 percent.