Wide Discrepancy in Numbers Between CNN, IN Secretary of State

8:45 - Obama leads in North Carolina 55-43; Clinton leads in Indiana 57-43.

You may wonder why our numbers are so different than CNN's. So do we — as we're getting our totals directly from the Indiana Secretary of State and the North Carolina State Board of Elections. EDIT: We'll continue updating numbers over the evening in our Primary Tracker there to the right. Straight from the real sources, of course.

From the raw numbers, it would look like the NC elections board is simply slightly ahead of CNN in reporting numbers, which explains the small discrepancy in North Carolina.

That is not the case for Indiana. The MSM is reporting raw voting numbers coming out of Indiana that are two to three times greater than what the Indiana Secretary of State's reporting. It seems remarkably unlikely that somehow CNN would be getting official numbers so far ahead of the Indiana Secretary of State, but we have no explanation for the huge disparity in numbers.

As the Secretary of State presents the official results of the primaries, we're going with those numbers. So TB readers will have the benefit of being ahead of the curve in North Carolina, while assuring the most accurate results possible across the board.