Tennessee Bloggers React To The Primary Results Out Of The Keystone State
Posted on April 23, 2008 at 6:39 amHillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania Primary by ten points, a margin many analysts said she needed to maintain an outside chance at winning the nomination. Here’s what local bloggers are saying about it:
But my point is, nothing has changed. Obama is still the frontrunner, he cut a 25-point deficit into 10, and he kept it close enough so that there won’t be a drastic change in the delegate count.
I’m a partisan who’ll vote for the Democrat in November, period. I’m tired of listening to both sides snipe at each other when the real enemy is John McCain and a GOP that has ruined our economy and screwed up our relations with most of the world. Call me when it’s over (which may be in Denver this August). See you at the ballot box Nov. 4!
Wow…I had no idea all those far left feminists who will only vote for Hillary are Zionists. I mean, they’ve already thrown out her vote for the war, her support of NAFTA, her betrayal of handgun control, and now she’s ready to use nuclear weapons. What next? Will she come out against gay marriage? Could happen.
Just one question for Hillary supporters. Do you support her views on the issues I mentioned in the paragraph above, and, would you be voting for a white male with that same voting record and campaign speeches and ads?
What you really need to watch for is the popular vote margin. That’s what really counts here, tonight. With Florida included (no serious analyst would include Michigan’s totals), Senator Clinton will only be down by about 315,000 votes. Her only feasible path to the nomination is through a popular vote victory — which she’d have been assured, anyway (and likely a pledged delegate victory, too) were it not for the ludicrously antiquated caucus system.
A small part of me want Hillary to win this (if she could feasibly win in the next few weeks) so I’d be able to have a break and cease caring what happens. Of course, when I feel that, I just have to watch Hillary and Obama side-by-side to remember why I do care so much about this election.
In any event, this was a win and a margin Hillary needed, so she will fight on. It will be hard for her to win to nomination, but not impossible. This will give her a boost. That’s my analysis anyway. Watch for all the pundits to say the exact thing over and over on cable news while using lots more words.
In fact, it’s not clear that much of anything has changed since Super Tuesday, if not before. For all the talk of shifting momentum, I think this contest will ultimately be viewed by historians almost purely through the prism of regional and demographic trends. You don’t need to look at the calendar to understand how things have unfolded. Geography and demography alone (and caucuses vs. primaries) explain the results. Obama’s February “winning streak” was a coincidence of friendly states stacked up one after another on the calendar; same with Clinton’s recent trifecta of Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. She hasn’t really “halted” his “momentum,” so much as the calendar has simply shifted in her favor, geographically and demographically speaking. And likewise, when he wins North Carolina, he won’t be “halting” her “momentum.” He’ll just be winning another Obama-friendly state, just like she’s winning the Clinton-friendly states. For all its moving parts, this race is really quite static. It’s more accurately viewed on a map rather than on a timeline.
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