Login HereWith 76% reporting -- Clinton 54%, Obama 46%
NBC's Chuck Todd, who's the best political analysts out there, says that of the 50 percent of Pa. votes not tallied yet, a large number of these are in Philadelphia and especially the suburbs -- most notably Montgomery County, which is an Obama stronghold. If that's the case, Clinton's margin will surely dip below 8-10 percent, where it's at now.
Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race.
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Bitter!
zed
There’s still no #’s out of Chester Co….
Less than she hoped for!
The Bitter Beer Face commercial is doubly apt, because PA is the Keystone State.
pancakes
Howdy Jane
Chester is one of the exburbs of Philly…!
orange juice w/ pulp
sure!
Kwatz!
WooHoo Jane - FDL field trip to Guam eh?
LOL!
Looks like no knockout punch in the late rounds, but Obama continues to land effective punches and the judges scorecards will show a split decision in his favor.
Guam? Who’d a thunk it?
Bob in HI
my new corner of the world.
Pennsylvania Department of State:
With 71.29% in,
Clinton 866,050 54.3%
Obama 730,060 45.7%
cool boxing metaphor. what can you do for soccer or basketball?
yum!
Guam will not have had this much attention since WWII. How exciting!?!?!?
Interesting. He is concentrating on McCain. Me likey
Kos has the delegates at 37 C to 31 O
I like Obama going after McCain hard … good job to take it to the real enemy.
Obama is slamming McCain tonight. More of this, please.
Bitter hell almost took her leg off….
Digg it folks
The Sheikh says “Get that weak shit outa my house!”
Hey Millineryman, big hug to you too! (just saw that in the last thread)
Who knew Indiana had cute Abercrombie & Fitch boys (behind Barack)?
Funny, I couldn’t listen to Hillary more than a few seconds. Am I biased in thinking she looked and sounded smug?
But Barack, easy listening. His supporters don’t sound too discouraged, do they?
I’m glad to hear that Obama is focusing on McCain.
And my family, too! Obama people all, even the old ones.
Yes! More, more, more!
CNN just updated their delegate count to 40 - 37, in favor of Clinton. How odd.
*giggling* I saw them and was just about to ask was it their umm integrity?
Oh, goody!
Cool, too, that you vote for delegates on the ballot.
Hillary won the 8th round, but she’s down by 6 points on the judges’ cards.
thats a big 3 delegate take
Let’s catch up on Facebook soon. I’m slowly getting back into it.
Eli xxxxxxxxxoooooooooo
Hah !
Hi, sadly!
Losing is a Victory !
keep hitting mccain. start campaigning for the ge now.
There are 187 to assign tonight, so we have a long way to go.
big yawn if she beats BHO by 3 delegates
yea folks get out your checkbooks/
Definitely!
Always liked that actually … naming who you sent to represent you.
hehehe let me guess the chanting is proof that it is a cult, right?
My friends, it’s time to rub out the presidential aspirations of that mass of contradictions known as John McCain.
better yet, volunteer!!!! If you can.
I haven’t seen that one– I thought they drank Rolling Rock in PA!
yup!
there is NO mathematical way she can win
game set match…bloody Mary …shower
Obama’s already out with an email saying on to the next … well timed. His net team does really smart work.
amen
Is Obama shifting gears pray tell??? Overdrive????
Sic ‘em’
I think you are starting to catch on…
Cool, too, that you vote for delegates on the ballot.
I don’t like it, personally. It confuses people.
Finally, they’re reporting…
it was snark against Hill supporters
Voting for delegates: In our district there weren’t even 5 delegates to vote for that supported Clinton. They will assign 3 men and 2 women. I guess that means at least one of Obama’s delegates will make the cut.
au contraire. Here’s the way.
I realize the Republican race has been over a long time, so the protest vote will be more likely to come out than others, but still: McCain only gets 72% of the Republican votes! That number needs a lot of attention.
I just recieved mine too. True, time to call the folks in Indiana *g*. I tell you, when he becomes the next pres, I want to be there at his inaugaration
My E-Mail to Clinton…
Ms. Clinton,
This is to inform you if you manage to steal the nomination from Barack Obama, for the first time in my life, I will not vote in the presidential election.
There was a line in the wonderful television series “The West Wing” in which John Spencer’s character said, “I’m tired of year after year, voting for the lesser of who cares?”
You, ma’am, are beyond my lower limit of who cares.
First thing you did was write that detestable book “It Takes a Village,” in which you advocated placing a greater share of the burden on the backs of the childfree, a description I wear with pride.
Then you voted to authorize George W. Bush’s war intentions. And you made that vote without even reading the information necessary to make an informed decision, you relied on a staffer’s summary of the information. You sided with BUSH. ANd yet, despite being proven as wrong as anyone can be, instead of owning up to it and saying, “I’m sorry, I really screwed the pooch on that one,” you make stupid, lame excuses, you triangulate and you spin.
Ma’am, you screwed the pooch. As a result of screwing the pooch, you have the blood of more than 4000 Americans and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians on your hands.
Finally, in the 2006 election, you supported Joe Lieberman. I know why you did - you are a feminine version of Joe Lieberman, a closet Republican. Your support of Lieberman nauseated me.
So you see, ma’am, because I have a conscience, because I have the courage of my convictions and because I believe you are little better than Dick Cheney, I cannot vote for you, now or ever.
By the way, Bill needs to be told his better days are behind him and he needs to shut his trap. He’s making you look like an idiot.
With due respect
ThatGuy
Prediction: It ain’t gonna be about the math.
I’m a little slow sometimes *g*
i love the snark of that
I actually used this for some of the debate threads last week…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLYxRWjHzwQ
I don’t see how, about as straight forward a you can get, with whom the delegate is commited to next to thier name.
she really aint gonna take on an angry crowd of 1.5 million Obama donors is she? now thats BAD JUDGEMENT?”g”
((Riesz)) long time…how are you?
Though it looks like Penn. will only decrease the delegate lead by 3% it looks like (if I have the numbers right) it decreases the popular vote lead from 700K to 500K.
Hmmm….
You know, pups, listening to the candidate who is lately being criticized for being “just” a great speaker, reminds me what I’ve been reading in Doris Goodwin’s Team of Rivals.
Again and again Goodwin quotes contemporaries who heard Lincoln speak or debate and were won over to him completely as a candidate for President. I need to start marking passages, can’t remember precisely, but those political experts of the mid-19th century believed that speaking skill (and talent) were a substantive sign of an intelligence and character that boded well for Lincoln as president.
I don’t understand why we have come to the opposite conclusion today, that speaking well demonstrates nothing. Is it because Reagan taught us to assume everyone is merely acting when they speak passionately?
I’m loving this speech, frankly.
Future President Obama is nailing it tonight.
The number of delegates are assigned entirely based on the popular vote for the candidates themselves in each congressional district.
Examples of her and Bill’s bad judgment are by now legion.
All is well.
KO disputes Tweety’s love of Hill’s speech tonite.
Hi wobblybits! Yeah I’ve been layin’ low, sick of the bitter primary. How are you doin’?
I’m reading the same book right now, and have the same reaction.
One big difference: the book I’m reading belongs to the public library, and they’d probably be less than pleased if I marked it up.
Many people think that if they failed to vote for delegates, their candidate wouldn’t get any delegates. I had to explain this to many people.
Tweety liked Hill’s speech more than Obama’s
Dude ! How’s it goin’, eh ?
I vacilate between great and pissed. But it’s almost over. Glad to see you though
LOL. Well, my copy belongs to my ex, but I’m not so sure he’s going to get it back.
But, I like tiny post-it notes instead of scribbling, mostly.
Tweety is an *ss. Nothing new there,
This may be my last update of the evening.
Pennsylvania Department of State:
With 78.23% in,
Clinton 958,058 54.0%
Obama 815,311 46.0%
The problem is there is no knockouts allowed anymore. She’d have to sweep all the rest of the states by 66% of the votes to overcome Obama in delegates…and Obama may even be able to negotiate in Florida and Michigan as a chit to win over the remaining Super Delegates.
Thus he becomes the great unifier of the Party!
Considering that Obama had to run against the machine, he did well
at least we won’t have to hear any more of tweety’s philly talk
well that sways me about tis much——
yeah there is that…
The Beard has it 55/45 for HRC …
Hi Petrocelli! That’s right, you’re from Canada, eh? Toronto if IIRC.
Also, that Reagan only told us what we wanted to hear.
Lincoln told people what he believed they needed to hear.
His desire to tell difficult truths sharpened his eloquence.
Bad news for Hillary … *g*
It’s also on audiobook, FYI.
I was just about to say that … thank you!
Tweety playing working class PA was just too much
Meant to say, I’m glad you feel the same way–sometimes I wonder if I’m wrong, if the times have really changed what’s valuable.
But I tend to think we had better presidents when voters turned out for 3-hr debates than when we listen to swelled-head pundits carping about bowling scores and pastors.
Yep, the city without a real NHL team … *g*
Obama’s folks just emailed link for his speech as prepared if anyone needs it … http://my.barackobama.com/page.....sen/gGCB2S
Sen. Clinton’s folks don’t seem to do this or I’d add that to the comments as well.
She could potentially pull it out if she scored huge wins in all the remaining states. I just don’t see that happening.
She hasn’t been mathematically eliminated, but it’s hard for me to see a realistic scenario where she wins the nomination. There’s the Pyrrhic Victory scenario, but I don’t think that’s going to happen either.
BTW, there was other votes cast outside of PA today! In a shocker, in Mississippi(MS-01), the Dem won but fell 400 votes shy of avoiding a runoff…
Yeah but now Obama has to face that upstart from North Carolina … Hillary Tar Heel Clinton … /s
Wow RNCof north carolina is going to introduce a commercial with the ‘controversial figures in Obama’s life. Timmeh says…race is being injected into the race
OMG republicans going to run racist ads against obama in NC
They score!!!!
Go Sharks!!!
(I want the Wings to play the Avs. I love the smell of melting Avalanche in the morning!)
yep.
cannot wait til I hear this:
“I (Barack Hussein Obama) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
so help me and the DFHs and the rest of the world.
Where she used to regularly go duck hunting, right?
Soccer. It’s penalty kick shootout and Team Obama has scored three consecutive shootout goals, while Team Hill has missed their first two. That means she needs to get the next three and hope Obama’s star forwards kick right at the keeper…JUST to go into sudden death shoot-out.
Basketball, down 30 points at the end of the third. Wait! There’s someone down at the end of the tunnel to the locker rooms handing a ref a fat envelope!
.
Yes, exactly! He led on the major issue of the day, slavery. Admittedly, he didn’t get way out in front of “the people,” who were horrified at the thought of allowing black folk to (gasp) vote, but nonetheless, he led by word and deed, in office.
I would be shocked if they *didn’t*.
I’m almost glad to hear it. First because it suggests desperation, and second because I think it’ll backfire–if not in NC, then elsewhere.
… before knocking down some jays …
Sharks? Shouldn’t they be up against the Jets?
What do you mean, haven’t the ‘Leafs been doing well this year? I’m from the Detroit area and we hardly ever play them so I haven’t kept up.
More like down 10 points at the end of the fourth, hoisting three-pointers and fouling the other team.
woohoo I am sooooo ready for that
… thereafter, Buchanan/Limbaugh/Bennett spontaneously combust …