Philadelphia - “That was Bill Clinton, here on the DVE Morning Show,” the breakfast-time DJ was saying as I left Pittsburgh early this morning. “In a few moments, Senator Barack Obama, here on the DVE Morning Show. That’s not a joke.” The candidates and their surrogates are in ceaseless motion, blanketing the state with exhortations to get out and vote, and local radio is crucial; former and potential future presidents certainly aren’t too grand to drop in, albeit by telephone, for conversations with stations like Pittsburgh’s WDVE Rocks, home of Hair Band Idol 2008.
Meanwhile, below the fold, some snippets reaching us here in Philadelphia at Deadline USA’s Pennsylvania Primary Election Central. (It’s like CNN’s Situation Room, except where they have banks of plasma screens and scrolling LED displays, I have a tragic little coffee-maker, and where they have Wolf Blitzer, I have… no Wolf Blitzer! Every cloud has a silver lining.)
*At Politico, some random bits of anecdata from around Pennsylvania suggest a sizeable turnout. The weather’s lovely, which should help.
*The New York Times’s Adam Nagourney ties himself in knots trying to figure out what would constitute a true win for Clinton tonight. He appears to think a margin as small as 5% might still be credible. Clinton’s spokesman Phil Singer, meanwhile, claims that “a win is a win is a win.” I think that’s called “expectations management.”
*Bill Clinton gets seriously tetchy with a reporter in Pittsburgh over his earlier comment that “they”, meaning the Obama campaign, had “played the race card on me.” This morning, he seemed to deny he’d ever made that remark.
*The Philadelphia Daily News notices a weird anti-Obama ad apparently mocking his supporters as befuddled youngsters, paid for by a ‘junk mail mogul’ with sort-of connections to the Drudge Report.
Time to go and pester some voters.

blogs.guardian.co.uk