(Via Daily Kos.)
Tonight’s outcome is unlikely to change the dynamic of this lengthy primary. Fully three quarters of the remaining delegates will be selected in states other than Pennsylvania. While there are 158 delegates at stake in today’s primary, there are 157 up for grabs in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries two weeks from […]
Via Political Wire.)
An early indication that Sen. Barack Obama thinks he’ll lose today’s Pennsylvania primary: He’s heading to Indiana tonight for a rally with John Mellencamp while Sen. Hillary Clinton plans a victory party in Philadelphia.
In addition, Obama’s campaign also released a memo essentially erasing all expectations of a win.
(Via New York Times.)
Imagine President Barack Obama is preparing his first State of the Union message. Would he want Vice President Hillary Rodham Clinton tut-tutting with edits or suggesting how she could write it better? Would he want to hear Second Spouse Bill Clinton wax on and on about favorite lines from his own speeches?
Senator […]
(Via Philadelphia Inquirer.)
Still undecided?
If you’re a Pennsylvania Democrat and today dawned with you still struggling, it could mean one of several things:
You could be one of those terminally indecisive people, for whom even ordering at Applebee’s becomes an hour-long agony.
More likely, it means you’re an earnest citizen who feels how momentous this choice is - […]
(Via RealClearPolitics.)
The result of the 2008 election may come down to how voters decide to define Barack Obama. Is he Adlai Stevenson or John F. Kennedy? Is he a detached former law review editor or a passionate agent of change? Is he an upscale reformer focused on process or a populist who will turn Washington […]
(Via ABC News.)
For the last six weeks Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., have battled and bickered and both have unleashed a barrage of negativity in television ads that have aired thousands of times in the state.
That barrage of ads will come to an end today as the Democrats of Pennsylvania head to […]
(Via ABC News.)
Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was campaigning where GOP candidates for president rarely go because they don’t have to.
McCain chose Alabama, one of the reddest states on the Electoral College map, to launch a week-long swing through some of the nation’s economically distressed […]
(Via Newshoggers.com.)
Wow — we are finally here, Pennsylvania Primary day. I’ll be voting in a couple of minutes and hopefully the little old ladies will still have good cookies on sale at my polling station. I’m still not sure where the state will go tonight. I’m still comfortable with my initial call that […]
(Via Truthdig.)
Sen. Hillary Clinton paid a (virtual) visit Monday to Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown,” where she offered explanations for why she used an image of Osama bin Laden in her new campaign ad and why she accepted the support of Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh-based media mogul who was once considered a key figure in the […]
