Posted on 04/23/2008 9:11:05 AM PDT by The_Republican
Clinton's path to the nomination remains extraordinarily treacherous even after the victory in Pennsylvania. Her margin was decisive, but even some of her most loyal supporters privately expressed doubts last night that she can prevail in the long battle against Obama.
The senator from Illinois still leads in the number of pledged delegates and the popular vote. He is almost certain to hold the delegate lead and will probably maintain the popular-vote advantage when the primaries end in early June. Perhaps more important, Clinton's campaign is nearly broke, whereas Obama has an enormous amount of money in the bank to throw into the next two contests and beyond.
But for the second time in seven weeks, first in the Texas and Ohio primaries and now in Pennsylvania, Obama did not deliver a decisive blow against Clinton when he had an opportunity to bring the race to an end, despite heavily outspending her and waging an aggressive and negative campaign in the final days. His advisers had hoped to hold Clinton's victory margin to mid-single digits and appeared to have fallen short of that goal.
"He broke every spending record in this state trying to knock us out of this race," Clinton told her supporters in Philadelphia last night. "Well, the people of Pennsylvania had other ideas."
Obama's loss in Pennsylvania raised anew questions about his ability to win the big industrial states that will be critical to the Democrats' hopes of winning back the White House in November. In the coming days, Clinton's camp will try to play on those doubts with uncommitted superdelegates -- who have been moving toward Obama over the past two months -- urging them to remain neutral until the primaries are over.
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After the caucuses, Obama ended up with more delegates from TX than Hillary.
Fauxbama cannot win a general election... HillBilly can’t either, especially if the Superdelegates give her the nomination after Fauxbama has the pledged delegate lead.
The Dems are in no win land... and while its been obvious to any objective observer for quite some time, they have been so self dilluded that they are only now starting to take real notice.
HillBilly absolutely TROUNCED Fauxbama, this wasn’t a solid win folks this was an abject spanking. Fauxbama outspent HillBilly 3 to 1.. HillBilly made misteps that should have sealed her fate or at very least allowed Fauxbama to make it nailbiter close... he was unable to capitalize on them and then made the classic liberal mistake... Got caught on tape saying what he really believed... Could not handle simple questions he should have been asked 6 months ago... etc etc etc. Had HillBilly spend the same $$$ as fauxbama she would have beat him by 15-20 points easily, very possibly even more.
In the 8 hours since her victory she raised $8 million over the internet alone... Dems are waking up, too late to the empty suit that fauxbama is. Fauxbama will win NC, due to nearly 50% of registered democratic voters being black in the state.. so he’ll try to claim something out of that, but it will be a hollow victory for any argument that he should be the delegate.
The dems have put themselves in no win land by having 2 of the absolutely weakest candidates I can think of in my lifetime up for the bid.
Short of some major change on the ground in Iraq, there is no way a dem will win in November, whichever one it is.
>> Clinton’s path to the nomination remains extraordinarily treacherous even after the victory in Pennsylvania... even some of her most loyal supporters privately expressed doubts last night that she can prevail in the long battle against Obama...
>> But for the second time in seven weeks, first in the Texas and Ohio primaries and now in Pennsylvania, Obama did not deliver a decisive blow against Clinton...Obama’s loss in Pennsylvania raised anew questions about his ability to win the big industrial states that will be critical to the Democrats’ hopes...
That’s right Dimorats! You’re dimmed if you do, and dimmed if you don’t!
Sucks to be a donkey anytime, but especially right now.
What is funny is that he was supposed to lose. However, after the results, everyone starts interpreting it and tries to figure out what it really meant. It still means the same thing it meant before yesterday - he can’t convince older conservative population to pull the lever for him, especially when Hillary is running apparently as a Conservative Candidate and on top of that deploying the race card.
No candidate can be beaten if they pry away one of the biggest group of Democrat party - The Women, who in PA are apparently everywhere.
There were numbers like MOST SINGLE MOTHERS in any state. As a man I can not know what a woman feels when she see other woman in Power and why that is attractive to them. But it is.
Hillary KEEPS the women and then runs as Right Wing Republicann in rest of the Conservative State.
Now who is going to beat that?
Morons who celebrate her win are incapable of understanding that she would do the same to them - only she would have more of Dem support and in NO WAY can John McCain run to her right.
She would convince women that she is femminist. She would convince gays she is a Lesbian. She would convince hunters, she loves the smell of blood in the Morning. She would convince blacks that Republicans are RACIST.
Its great that Obama is being forced to throw his money into primary contests.
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