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Kudos to Ron Paul’s supporters in Pennsylvania for not giving up and providing some 128,000 votes to Rep. Paul, bringing him close to the magical one million total for the year and also providing him with a few convention delegates as well. 27% of Pennsylvania Republicans don’t like John McCain and if McCain can’t bring them into the fold then it doesn’t matter how beat-up the Democratic Party nominee is, he’s a sure loser in the fall, especially if the LP nominates Bob Barr next month and the CP nominates Chuck Baldwin this weekend.
This is Paul’s best showing in a primary all year. In some Pennsylvania counties his vote totals neared 30 %
Barak Obama has had every chance in the world to finish off Hilary Clinton and cannot do it. It’s amazing this is happening given the bandwagon effect in the modern presidential primary process (which McCain used to win the GOP nomination). All indicators give Obama the nomination and yet voters seem quite willing to keep this campaign going.  The only people who want this primary camapaign to end are Washington politicos. I wonder why? What happen to the exciting convention struggle everyone was hoping for this year?
For Obama’s nomination to be put in some jepoardy she needs to win both Indiana and North Carolina on May4.
What Pennsylvania shows is that it will be easier to bring back an Obama voter to Clinton than a Clinton voter to Obama. In fact, if she does somehow win the nomination Obama will almost certainly be her vice presidential nominee. If he wins he has to take a white male as his running mate, presumably Virginia’s Tim Kaine or Jim Webb.
Did the “bitter” comments hurt? Well it’s safe to say it made Obama’s job of coverting the Scots-Irish and ethnic Catholics to his side much harder than it would have been. If anything, what hurt him more was his attitude towards Philadelphia ward heelers who wanted a little “street money” to use on election day. His camapaign wouldn’t provide it and as a result he didn’t win Philly by the margins he needed to to have a chance of winning Pennsylvania. Call it elitist if you like.Â
Obama’s inability to win big states or unite the party has to be a concern for the superdelegates. That’s why that have to be independent. Their job is to choose the best candidate to lead the party. Otherwise what’s the point of their exsistence?
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Andrew T. on 23 Apr 2008 at 7:45 pm #
You said it well!
roho on 23 Apr 2008 at 9:18 pm #
I have no sympathy or admiration for either Clinton or Obama……..However, “Diebold Electronic Voting Machines” will NEVER allow him to be the nomination in my opinion…….(And the boys in the hood will never figure it out.)……..See “The Fix is in” by Chuck Baldwin.
Frank Griglonis on 24 Apr 2008 at 1:07 pm #
the rodham/clintons…hillary, hugh, tony, bill,
and chelsea (and many democratic ward heelers)
put a full court press on o’bama…and he was pretty
well blitzed in nepa (PA) creepa, (where the frontier ended some decades ago) by 75% to 25%)…ron paul
was well represented by e-mailings, public-meetups posters, signs, radio ads, and phone calls…(and polled almost 20% on the republican side)