Pennsylvania Primary
Remember the Alamo! Remember the Texas primary? How about Louisiana and Wyoming? Those primaries seem so far away, and in light of the two Super Tuesday events of February and March, the Pennsylvania primary was 4-6 weeks out depending upon where you started. But, now we're just a little over a week away. It's time to ramp up the rhetoric and get a bit more refined on the polling process.
Hillary has finally been able to seize on an Obama miscue (of sorts) and she's milking it for all she's worth. The Democratic divide widens!
The former first lady seized on comments by Obama last week in which he labeled working class voters as "bitter," describing his words as "divisive" and condescending toward a large segment of US voters. Clinton is lobbying furiously for votes in upcoming April 22 primary in the northeastern state of Pennsylvania, where she needs a big turnout by blue-collar voters to keep alive her bid to secure the Democratic nomination.
While Pennsylvania is directly ahead in the head lights, North Carolina and Indiana follow not too far behind. Either candidate who loses will have those two states to hopefully make up. While there are 158 delegates at stake in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina combine on May 6th for another 187 delegate votes. An Obama upset in Pennsylvania would bring many calls for Hillary to srop out.
A Hillary win (she's still leading in almost all polls), would mean she lives to fight in Indiana and North Carolina and if she wins 1 of the 2 it's on to West Virgina and Kentucky in succeeding weeks and a battle that few Democrats have a stomach for or desire to engage.
Obama leads Clinton by 1,641 to 1,505 total delegates heading into Pennsylvania, according to an independent tally by RealClearPolitics.com. Neither candidate can win the 2,025 delegates needed to capture the nomination, so the votes of the nearly 800 superdelegates, who can vote how they like at the party convention in August, will be decisive.
Obama leads Clinton by 1,641 to 1,505 total delegates heading into Pennsylvania, according to an independent tally by RealClearPolitics.com. Neither candidate can now win the 2,025 delegates needed to capture the nomination, so the votes of the nearly 800 superdelegates, who can vote how they like at the party convention in August, will be decisive.
And just maybe that's where we see Gore and Carter step in.
Maybe not. Maybe the Democrats really need a good old blood-letting. If so, they have all the ingredients for just such an event.
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