Democratic Doings in Pennsylvania
Filed under: US Elections
The top ten states according to population (in order California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina) control 246 electoral votes for president or 91% of the 270 needed to win the Oval Office. Nine of these states have run their primary election contests so far this year, and Democrat Barack Obama has won only two of them -- Illinois and Georgia -- while Clinton has won all of the top three.
Despite spending truly obscene gobs of cash in Pennsylvania and leading in the overall delegate count, therefore having the wind at his back, Obama was dealt another devastating loss in a major state last night, losing Pennsylvania in woeful, double-digit fashion. Now Democrats are asking: Why can't he close the deal? What's wrong with him? And they are noticing that he isn't winning their core constituencies. If they don't win in Pennsylvania in the general election, they lose. It's as simple as that. Obama crazily referred to the people of central Pennsylvania as bitter hillbillies, and lost their counties by whopping 70% margins across the state.
Obama needs 320 more delegates to reach the nomination, but Clinton needs less than half that number to catch him in the delegate race. Clinton is much closer to catching Obama, in other words, than he is to reaching the nomination. Since the votes of Michigan and Florida aren't being counted but likely favor Clinton just like the other major states, Clinton supporters will reasonably claim they are being cheated if they are denied the nomination. Combined with Obama's wild-eyed and corrupt past, this dissatisfaction spells total disaster in the general election. The contrast between Obama's terrorist, America-hating cohorts and John McCain, a legitimate war hero, will be stark indeed.
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