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Big W for HRC
April 23, 2008 1:04 AM
Huge victory in the Keystone State for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, last night. Watch her victory speech HERE.
The AP's Ron Fournier looks at some big problems Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, continues to face -- racism, an inability to connect with working-class voters, an ability to connect with some questionable cats such as William Ayres, Tony Rezko and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and inexperience.
And the New York Times editorial board, which endorsed Clinton for president, takes her to the mat for an ugly campaign that is hurting her, Obama, and the Democratic Party.
Night-night!
-jpt
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s.b.,
I read it just like you. Racism is a problem for Hillary Clinton!! Look at the black vote in PA. 90% Obama. Jake, how can you say he lost because of white racism. I say without the black vote, this would have been a win in every county in PA.
Bob Casey influence?? LOL Looks like his small town people don't like what he did.
Posted by: countallthevotes | Apr 23, 2008 7:53:13 AM
Yes all of the things that make Obama unelectable are Hillary's fault, and all the negativity is HIllary's and poor little Barrack has to deal with all those racist white people.
What a load of garbage! Obama is just as negative. Racism is helping him, what with 90% of the black vote and NONE of his problems absolutely none or the DNC's are Hillary's fault!
That is mysoginistic crap! He's unqualified for the job. Middle America can see and hear that loud and clear.
Posted by: s.b. | Apr 23, 2008 7:39:57 AM
Racism a problem for Obama. You are kidding me right! Whiel he's geting 90% of the black vote, you are kidding me!
Posted by: s.b. | Apr 23, 2008 7:36:41 AM
Does close count? If Obama were in Hillary’s position would he quit? I doubt it. Would a major newspaper come out with a nasty ad after such a win? I doubt it. He can’t win the nomination either.
There is progress in this country to get blatant racism out of the press. That is a great thing. Now, however, it is common place to be a blatant misogynist and no one blinks. That is a sad commentary for any newspaper and it is a sad commentary for any news network and a sad commentary for this country.
Fight misogyny for your wife, your mother, your daughter, your sister; most importantly fight misogyny for yourself. Vote Hillary! Hillary/Edwards 08!
Posted by: AmazonTraveler | Apr 23, 2008 7:33:09 AM
WestCoastMessanger, NIcholas, pp et al all HillLovers. Yes we can, Obama has shown that he can fire back on Ed+Hill the Bosnian General+Bill+their 20 FAT CATS. She was 25% ahead in PA and ended up with less than 10% victory. That is the reality of a 15% erosion. After playing from Karl Rove and McCain's books on nuclear war with Iran, fear, fear and fear again. Hill ended up with a campaign in red. RE delegates from Floridad and Michigan they cannot be counted, these two states have not played by the rules and Dean said it you cannot change the rules of a game in the middle of a game. Obama got today one superdelegate and lot of pledeged delegates. Nothing changed, the math has not move at all and you have to live with that reality. Obama has the nomination in his pocket. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.
Posted by: BKMC | Apr 23, 2008 7:23:07 AM
Congrats, Senator Clinton. On to North Carolina, where I hope the people have as much sense as Pennsylvanians. Obama is poison for this country; get out, corrupt racist fraud.
Posted by: Griffin | Apr 23, 2008 6:43:06 AM
Then again, to be fair I guess most people really don't have time or inclination to do that, and the small light colored font on the "includes FL and MI" is probably not deliberate.
Posted by: John P | Apr 23, 2008 6:34:58 AM
PP, that includes Florida (which is okay) and Michigan (which is not okay since he wasn't even on the ballot). Read the fine print.
Rather disingenous of ABC...
Posted by: John P | Apr 23, 2008 6:30:00 AM
As pointed out elsewhere, it's actually only a 9 point difference....
1258245/(1258245+1042297)=0.5469
1042297/(1258245+1042297)=0.4530
.54.69.4530=0.0939 = 9.39% , which would round down to 9%
Obama did keep it in single digits. Of course, this doesn't matter since people aren't really that intelligent; people see 55/45 and assume a 10 point difference, so Clinton wins the expectations game.
Posted by: John P | Apr 23, 2008 6:22:31 AM
Carmen:
WOW! Hillary won PA because of "simple minds or resentful whites?"
What a nasty, racist thing to say. Even for an Obama follower.
Posted by: Sal | Apr 23, 2008 6:22:21 AM
Congrats to Hillary, but a HUGE win?
Absolutely not. Obama made an inroad of 10 points after weeks that for another candidate would have been disastrous, starting with the Wright tapes and ending with bittergate and the ABC debate.
Hillary fell seriously short of the numbers she needed, that were extensively discussed earlier this week (at least 63% of the vote to start making some inroad in the overall counts).
After this result, Obama's lead has only become more insurmountable. And North-Carolina is ready to hand him another large victory again. In fact the only LARGE victory for Hillary was Arkansas, Obama had many of them, and his home state Illinois was the largest victory in the whole race.
Obama is on track to win the nomination, Hillary after last night lost her last chance to do anything about it.
Posted by: greg | Apr 23, 2008 5:29:24 AM
I just realise something, Barrack is to Good for america and american politics are extremely innane. Majority of Americans wThey rather vote for a devious Liar or the George Bush rerun ! They rather have divison than unity, they rather have the world against them than with , they rather move back than forward! Thats why americas chickens will come honme to roost. America doesn't want change so it doesn't deserve it ! If barrack was for the UK he will already be prime minister...give him to us we can do better with him!
Posted by: Javan Dyer | Apr 23, 2008 4:43:01 AM
Go Hillary!! While the media would like to promote the view obama that is the chosen one - I am glad that the people are making up their own minds.
She did win by double digits - 10 is a double digit.
I also question obama's judgement in terms of his associates - wright, rezko, ayers....god, his career hasn't even been so long.
Hillary '08!
Posted by: Xin | Apr 23, 2008 4:10:51 AM
Hillary Clinton has shown amazing resilience with this impressive victory in another large diverse state that will be up for grabs in the general election. Hillary has consistently won the moderate and middle-class voters that the Democrats HAVE TO WIN in order to take the general election, and she has won this demographic resoundingly. This is not going unnoticed by super delegates.
Hooray for Hillary!!
Posted by: Scott Hansen | Apr 23, 2008 4:09:44 AM
lol. I see Obama supporters are wasting no time in trying to spin the results.
Posted by: jb | Apr 23, 2008 4:03:41 AM
''Big W for HRC''
How easy she different from yesterday: look at the delegates count.
Posted by: leche | Apr 23, 2008 4:02:24 AM
Senator Clinton did not win by 10 points - she won by right around 8.6 points. This was not the double-digit win that she needed - ignore the ABC rounding and look at the Pennsylvania State Department site. A single digit win in PA will not net Senator Clinton any serious gains in pledged delegates - this was a hollow victory at best. Ignore the rounding and check the real numbers - this was NOT the double-digit win Senator Clinton needed.
Posted by: JOHNPATRICK | Apr 23, 2008 3:48:16 AM
I am surprised 45% of voters actually voted for Obama. I guess these people would have voted for Osama Bin Laden if Osama Bin Laden had given a speech criticizing the Iraq war. Wait a minute, Osama did give a speech criticizing the Iraq war.
Posted by: Roger Miller | Apr 23, 2008 3:21:57 AM
Obama might want to take a cue from former candidate Mitt Romney -- you can't buy this election!
Obama is simply unelectable!
Clinton/Edwards 2008!!!
Posted by: LOM | Apr 23, 2008 3:16:16 AM
Actually, Obama's losses ARE Clinton's fault! Silly me!
She is the superior candidate and Pennsylvania delivered that message loud and clear tonight!
Posted by: LOM | Apr 23, 2008 3:11:31 AM
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