Why Can't Obama Win Pennsylvania?*

Here's my nominee for Worst Pennsylvania Primary Result coverage -- MSNBC. Olbermann is actually stammering and sputtering, Russert is demonizing the Clintons, Matthews is cackling at Russert's tirade...

Who won? Even with the 24/7 campaigning by the Obamedia??

Jake, you were right and your article make some valid points. How come Obama can't win!
Very hard for his campaign to explain that!

Barack can't with with all the money in the world, all the media in his favor, all his trashing of Hillary, all the left side of the party supporting him, all the BIG endorsements, etc. and still he CAN'T WIN the big States! To me he is a loser!

"Well we all knew Hillary was going to be the winner ... "

Well, nobody DID know that. That was the premise:

"But what's so crazy about the idea that the Democratic frontrunner -- flush with cash and outspending Clinton 3-to-1, running against a candidate with such high unfavorable ratings -- should be able to win a blue state primary?"

DESPITE spending an obscene amount of money in PA -- no "change" there -- Obama DIDN'T, it seems at this moment, manage to buy the WHOLE primary. This is great: maybe it'll catch on.

I think it is pretty clear that race is the primary reason... represented by the fact that white women are voting for a white woman... not being critical, but these are the facts... it doesn't help that in Ohio Nafta-gate broke just prior to the primary, and now Wright and cling-gate... so whatever gains he may have made with aggressive campaigning, quickly lost... but the writing is on the wall in my opinion... she can't win... and I wouldn't vote for her... but he will win the "big" states in November...

Well we all knew Hillary was going to be the winner - but will it be double digits?

MSNBC has just declared Hillary the winner!

Rise, Hillary, Rise!'08

"stop saying obama has a "800,000" lead in the popular vote. Every time you do you throw 1.7 million people in florida overboard. it is arrogant in the extreme."

If you count Florida Obama's lead is still about 400,000 - check the realclearpolitics site fot that

Fox News has just declared Hillary the winner!

Rise, Hillary, Rise!'08

Why can't Hillary win as BIG in PA as she and Rendell said she could?

Five minutes or so ago, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews were exchanging stricken looks on msnbc, on having to report that the PA primary is "too early" to call, rather than "too close" to call. It was comical, in a horrible way.

Basically, this is a gender and demographic contest... and frankly, the demographics have always been on Hillary's side. Fortunately, Obama is a stronger candidate for real change.

This is *VERY* good news for Obama and for all Democrats in upcoming years, because the entire Democratic Party will ride higher for longer on the demographics of his supporters. It seems like all she's able to decisively carry are older voters and less educated voters.

that is not right
cnn just said the white men voted for the white woman
all the exit polls sofar say it has broke along the line of race.
white women and white men have been voting for hillary.

Closed primary. Wisky was an open primary. Obama wins independents handily.

"Why can't the frontrunner win working class voters?"

CNN's exit polls say that he pretty much just did... with 53% of the male vote compared to 44% for Hillary.

She gets 55% of the female vote, many of them elderly, and gets more of the retired male voters.

So yeah, he *HAS* the working class voter on his side.

the clinton machine is broken
the obama machine is rolling right along and donating and trying to buy the best superdelegates his money can get.
I wish people would explain what the clinton machine is?

Max, 6 weeks is nothing when you're up against the Clinton machine

stop saying obama has a "800,000" lead in the popular vote. Every time you do you throw 1.7 million people in florida overboard. it is arrogant in the extreme.

sen. clinton has had the deck stack against her on every level
the media has not helped us to examine this obama
so what has happened
the media has been telling us she needs to get out, he is the one.
and we don't know him
so what has happened everytime the voters get a chance to have their say
they keep her in and it gives us a chance to learn him a little more.
and the more we learn about him-the more we know he is not the one.
we need to ignore the pundits and media people and just keep listening to each other we the voters
and we will come out all right.

"it's all an excuse for something else, something not attractive."

Yeah, if anybody has RESERVATIONS about a hothouse hustler being elevated waaay beyond his accomplishments, in spite of being pals with mobsters and talking about such elevating topics as "typical white persons" and so on, it must be RACISM, must be about the color of his skin? When you're talking about the U.S. presidency? Horse-pucky.

Maybe, instead, it's something about the "content of his character" that's creeping people out.