Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Keys from Keystone State and Beyond?


So last night, Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary 55% to 45% over Barack Obama (CNN has the delegate count, 81-69). Two weeks until the Indiana and North Carolina contests, like the buggy in Pennsylvania Amish country, is this the primary camapaign that time just cannot rush?

What does it all mean. Blog your thoughts and projections of when the Democrats will have a nominee for president (presumtive, or otherwise) after you read some interesting posts linked here:

First, CNN has exit poll data. What'dya make of it?

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#PADEM

Second, The Swamp has an interesting article on Obama's apparent white working class problem.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obamas_white_workingclass_prob.html

Dan Balz onf the Washington Post, had 8 preview questions prior to Tuesday's Penn Primary. What answers do we have today?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102805.html?hpid=topnews

And finally, CNN political comentator Jack Cafferty asks, "Why can't Obama close the deal?"

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/23/why-cant-barack-obama-close-the-deal/

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I still think Obama will win the nomination, but that will probably take until August to sort out. Hillary still has a major following among Democrats. As for the white working class issue, there's probably a little racism at work here. Obama has much broader appeal than Hillary, but it's going to be a fight to the finish.

Anonymous said...

I hope and suspect that Obama will win the democratic nomination.
The numbers on church attendance and the importance of campaign ads were funny.