Clinton Fights on after Much-Needed Pa. Victory
Facing another must-win political battle, Sen. Hillary Clinton emerged victorious Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, but it’s unclear how much the victory will help close her delegate deficit against the better-funded Sen. Barack Obama.
“It’s fair to say she had the entire political establishment in the state,” syndicated columnist Mark Shields said Tuesday night on the NewsHour. “He had the money. There was a kind of parity of resources.”
In the six weeks since the Mississippi contest, Clinton worked to show her blue collar bona fides in the Keystone State and highlight her Pennsylvania family roots — and went on to win more of the blue-collar workers, women and white men in an election where the economy was the dominant concern.
Obama, meanwhile, was favored by black voters, the affluent and those who recently switched to the Democratic Party, a group that comprised about one in 10 Pennsylvania voters, according to the surveys conducted by The Associated Press and TV news networks.
“The future of this campaign is in your hands,” Clinton told supporters at a Philadelphia victory rally. “Some people counted me out and said to drop out, but the American people don’t quit and they deserve a president who doesn’t quit either. Because of you, the tide is turning.”
On Earth Day, Clinton proposed creating more “green jobs” to kick-start the flagging economy and help minimize climate change.
“We’re going to end the war on science and have a renewed commitment to science and research,” she said.
Clinton ended her speech by co-opting Obama’s “Yes, we can” slogan into a more determined “Yes, we will.”
Obama’s most politically powerful supporter in Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey, said the Illinois senator managed to cut into Clinton’s polling lead, which was well into the double digits as recently as the beginning of April.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
http://reddit.com/info/6gt88/comments/She only won by 9.4%……… not 10
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
I’m sorry, there’s just no way that can be a legitimate finding. The “bitter” comment was released on a Thursday and made the mainstream on the weekend, and the kind of people who knew about it before they came into work today are political types who’ve already picked their candidate. I’d be fine with a Clinton bump of two or three points, but 20 points? Somethings wrong with their methodology.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
This is less of a surprise to me than her continuing after TX and OH. I think I’ll be pissed off if she’s still in it after the primaries in 2 weeks
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
where is the [very cool] part?
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 am
If they were to allow gay men to give blood in the US, I would be the first to sign up to donate. Although I’m not male myself, this sort of discrimination makes me avoid giving blood. It’s equally infuriating when people try to justify the ban by telling me it’s a “Dangerous Lifestyle choice,” and therefore the ban is good. Last I heard, and wikipedia confirms this, is that 47% of cases of HIV are in African Americans. Are we going to ban them from giving blood, seeing as how they make up so much of the group? What about black women? They’re 19 times more likely to contract HIV than white women. Are we going to ban them from giving blood, too? No, because that would just be discrimination, wouldn’t it? The outcry would be huge! Banning an entire class of people, rather than just screening for bad habits and testing for disease, pulls a huge amount of potential donors out of the pool.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
“I’m gnashing my teeth on a beer can as I write this”wait, wouldn’t that register as one of the favorite pasttimes of likely hillary supporters? i thought that was her core constituency.jk.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Sorry for the language - it just blows my mind that we’re letting her continue to wreak havoc, clearly just to get that campaign debt paid off.I’m gnashing my teeth on a beer can as I write this
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Man, someone needs to pappy-slap that bitch.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Rather mild “mocking” in my view. Just a clip of her getting booed for attacking him while pointing out that these petty attacks will do nothing to improve the conditions that challenge America today.Another good response ad from the Obama camp.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
If the Obama campaign had asked for this people would applaud it and claim that the Clinton campaign was forging signatures.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
What do you mean “even before they’ve started counting” she’s been saying she’ll campaign till the convention since Texas, since the beginning even. Why are you surprised by her stubborn idiocy?
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I agree: when multiple other polling agencies list Clinton’s margins as shrinking everywhere, I simply cannot accept a reporting of her highest to date lead in Penn.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I wish Redditors would lay off the “Obama edging closer in PA” stories for a while. Clinton has already declared her stubborn intention to stick it out until the convention. If Obama wins PA, she’s not going to drop out. If he loses, then he’s the guy who had all the momentum on his side and still couldn’t deliver. Clinton’s going to do everything in her power to bypass the “fallen frontrunner” title in favor of “never-say-die underdog,” and stories like this are what’s going to do it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Attack her attacks. That’s not a terribly bad idea. It might technically be an attack ad, but you’re not attacking her, just her endless, and in my opinion classless, jabs at a fellow Democratic candidate.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
haven’t we had enough of stubborn refusal to see that you are wrong according to popular opinion and cold, hard facts over the past 8 years?