For Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the community has not only played a crucial role in the run-up to the primaries both by way of physical and financial support but also with their huge concentrations in big and diverse states may have played even a “swing” role.

Indian-Americans are well dotted across the states of New York and New Jersey, the two major states going to Clinton last night; and Illinois, the home state of Obama, also has a large population of the community that has for the most part thrown its weight behind the son of the soil.

In California, especially where the Indian American community is present in large numbers, their voting impact has certainly helped Clinton get this huge state that offered as many as 441 delegates to the national convention.

There is no saying what would have happened to Clinton if she had lost California.