Opinion: The chants by Clintonites cease

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‘Call it,’ the crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters gathered in a ballroom in downtown Indianapolis had been chanting Tuesday night, when she staked out a big early lead over Barack Obama in the Indiana Democratic presidential primary.

But with the exception of CBS News, the television networks and the Associated Press continued to view the contest as too close to call.

And, Times reporter Noam Levey tells us, the Clinton crowd grew increasingly quiet as the Indiana race grew increasingly tight.

-- Don Frederick