Why Can’t Obama Win Pennsylvania?*

bravo jake — this is all Obama spin. First they were saying that Clinton was losing her margin in polls in PA, and that Obama could actually win, and now when they see that he can’t win in PA, they are trying to spin the loss. They keep moving the goal posts. But here is the key: ANY loss by Obama in PA is huge, because he out spent her like 3 to 1, and if he has the unlimited resources, and still can’t close the deal, how in the world can he win the general? The Dems would be committing political suicide by nominating Obama….he can’t win ANY of the major states. Bill was right when he said that if the Dem primary was like the Repub primary, Hillary would be winning by now. And lest you try to argue this point, remember that the general election is more similar to the Repub primary….all or nothing. So, who has the best chance to win the general election, the candidate who won most of the big states, where electoral votes will seal the deal in the general, or the candidate who won most of the caucus states, which is not like the general at all? The question is not how much you like HIllary or Obama, but HOW BAD DO YOU WANT A DEM IN THE WHITE HOUSE? get real people, Obama is a loser, there is no way he can face McCain….NONE.

Obama supporter,
Jake is telling the truth, Obama campaing is going to spin tonight. If they’re spending 3-1, they don’t win, then Obama will have problem in general election with working class people.

I live in PA. I have no doubt he will wil in the general election but he may have a hard time in the Primary. I am voting for him. He is the better candidate. But a lot of PA is rural. And it seems that those favor Hillary. It may be because she is white. I am not sure. I live in rural Pa and the weeks leading up to this our local paper was filled with editorial comments against Obama which we racist. And that seemed to be the only reason they were against him. I am hoping for an upset.

Prediction:
Obama’s negatives will prevent
him from winning the nomination
and may put him in jail…

It’s not, from my understanding, just the governor, etc….it’s the entire Pennsylvania machine that is behind Clinton. And that still makes a major difference.
I’m going out on a limb here, but I would be willing to bet Obama could beat Hillary in Pennsylvania if he had the machine behind him. It’s that important.

Maybe throwing the race card at them in SF and tossing them under the bus with Grandma might have something to do with it.
It wasn’t ‘bitter’ that was so offensive, it was the other stuff he said.
He took the coward’s route before he even really started campaigning there.
Geez…McCain went to Selma, Alabama without calling them names before he went. It’s called common sense.
It’s a shame Obama doesn’t believe in himself otherwise he wouldn’t stoop to these type of tactics.
As usual they will blame racists and ignore the fact that Gen Colin Powell could have won America and PA, without a probelm, and he is a Republican.

Spending 3 to 1 over Hillary in PA and still loosing? Well, Obama better wake up and know Americans are not for sale. No ANTI and HATE AMERICAN should be the leader of this country. He is a snake oil man, preaching HOPE and CHANGE that he can’t even change his anti American spiritual mentor of over 20 years. He didn’t bring HOPE to his own people in Illinois. What a liar! GO HILLARY – THE TRUE AMERICAN ALL THE TIME.

Possibly because the uneducated in PA did well under her husband and because as we all know the ignorant are always more apt to be racist. It truly is that simple and you know it Jack so to come on here and try to get someone other than yourself to say is really immature.
The uneducated are more apt to be racist and not want a black man as President and are willing to vote for the wife of a man they liked…and understood his running around. The ignorant boys club mentality.

Do not be fooled by the charisma of this man — he clearly resents America and wants to “change” it in the way “anti-Americans” want it to be shaped.
Obama has no experience, judgment, credibility nor loyalty toward the USA. He is just a cynical, arrogant political opportunist with no wisdom. For months, Barack Hussein Obama has been talking about fundamental “Change.”
Most of us wonder what kind of change he wants? He has not been able to tell us. If we connect the dots — we can get a pretty good idea of the kind of change Obama is talking about: He is being endorsed by anti-Americans and terrorists Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan, Rezko, and many other people who hate America. He is for the black supremacist and far-left anti-American ideology running things.
His ideas of change are a combination of the ultimate liberal wet dream and America’s worst nightmare.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! HE’S OUTSPENT HILLARY 4 TO 1 AND STILL CAN’T STOP HER! OUR COUNTRY IS NOT FOR SALE! NO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!
CLEARLY, HILLARY CLINTON IS THE WISER CHOICE TO REPRESENT DEMOCRATS THIS FALL.

I know Jake you are professional in your career. Nevertheless, I wonder why you put this article now while we are waiting for the results.
Anyway, I have read the last paragraph you are apologising for that, but it could have make much sense if you could put your article after knowing the winner with what percentage.

Fair point. Do take note that Obama can close out Clinton by going negative. But doing so is like burning the village to save it. He’s going to need the Clinton Women supporters (biggest Dem voting bloc) come the general election. So knowing that Clinton has no chance of passing him why should he hurt his odds in November? She can have her symbolic victory in a battle where the war is lost.

Brian,
If America is so racist and doesn’t want a black man to win?
Then why did America beg Gen Colin Powell to run several times, even as a Republican?
Why does Obama have to lie to his supporters about that fact….insulting both Gen Powell and America?
And how exactly does he expect to get votes by insulting people?

Could it be that the Pennsylvanians and working class voters are actually the rational voters this time? Working class voters are not voting for about as part of some cultural mandate to unite the country or to finally elect a “black man,” or someone who crosses the “racial divide.” They are simply electing Clinton on a record, experience and passion for their issues. When it comes down it, the bread and butter issues do work for working classes voters because they are living their lives on an individual plane. Not to make a generalization but Obama’s supporters to a certain extent are this year’s value voters like those who supported Bush in the last 2 years. Rational working class voters may also realize that there is no evidence of better judgment or experience on policy issues on Obama’s part. It’s understandable how these voters may consider voting for McCain because all they may disagree with him he does have a wealth of experience, expertise and evidence of good judgment while being a Senator despite his many failings.

No Democrat can win in PA when almost the entire Democratic establishment is supporting the opponent (the same is not true for many other states). This is not reflective of the general election.

It Has always been about Race for Obama.
Obama lives by his race and religion.
It is the main part of his personality.
Read his books if you need clarification of that.
If you look at his platform is it reflects his religion and race. The main things he beleives in is social programs. If you compare that to his religion and their aspirations toward race, and his own books they become clearer to see.
Sure he says a lot of stuff, He also has lied a lot of times. Even on his family and best friends.
When a grown man can call his own grandmother a “typical white woman.”
Shows an extreme lack of honor and respect he has for himself or his grandmother, and woman. Plus shows you his racial Discrimination.
When he flipped Hillary off in his speech, then snickered about it. Showed his lack and honor and respect for himself and her and woman.
He called Americans Racist, when they got upset with someone God Damning America. Showed he is not patriotic, and lack of respect for his country and for Americans. That he does not know the difference between Patriotism and racism.
When he has lied to the American people on the news, straight faces and blatantly. Came back with out remorse, just acted like it was nothing.
He runs around complaining That everything wrong is the governments, just like his church does. Showed he thinks more of his church teachings than of his country.
If you look at him and see he reflects his church teachings in almost all of his platforms, policies and what he says. They hold their religion and their race above everything else and so does he. Evident in what he says and does and what he fails to do.
It is plain to see why he refuses to show any outward sign of Patriotism, or any customary signs of patriotism.
He has campaigned in so many of the churches thought this country. In disregard to the Government non-profit laws.
Many are taken in by the used salesman High Pressure Pitch, speeches. The Hollywood style hype. His made up stories so he could some how make it looks like he relates to you on a personal level. To Fatten you up for the Taking. Feeding you the Pipe dream and giving you false hopes.
The only way he can give you everything he promised and you want. Is to take absolutely everything away from everyone and start over. If he does that, he ain’t giving anything back, you know that right?
If it sounds to good to be true, It is to good to be true, You can be absolutely sure of that.
So Open your minds back up, and look at the whole picture.
I am a white woman, I am not a Typical. I am a realist not a racist.

Mr. Obama may receive more than 90% of the AA vote. That should be enough to keep him within single digits of Mrs. Clinton in PA.

I think Brian sums it up best below. This is why Obama won’t win, because Obama thinks just like Brian (elitist snobs unite!). Brian says Clinton will win:
“Possibly because the uneducated in PA did well under her husband and because as we all know the ignorant are always more apt to be racist. It truly is that simple and you know it Jack so to come on here and try to get someone other than yourself to say is really immature.
The uneducated are more apt to be racist and not want a black man as President and are willing to vote for the wife of a man they liked…and understood his running around. The ignorant boys club mentality”
If you’re smart like Brian, you vote for Obama! Personally, I’ll take the Ignorant Boys Club any day…

Working white voters are not educated…Obama wins decisively with those who have a college education and are able to locate Iraq on a world map.
Unfortunately, these voters, especially white working class males, have never been won by a democratic nominee for decades. They respond to the tough talking, fear tactics of the Republicans. And, yes, there are a percentage who are racist and will refuse to vote for a black person.
Given all of your experience and education, I am quite certain that you know the answer to your own question…I guess you’re bored and want to see how much controversy you can stir up.
BTW, trust me, if Hillary’s campaign wasn’t $10,000,000 in debt, she would be spending the same, if not more. Actually given the fact that she has family ties in PA, she has campaigned there with her husband for the last 15 years, and it is the 3rd oldest state, it’s amazing that Obama has cut into her initial 25 point lead at all.
OBAMA/WEBB ’08 & ’12

I think Michigan and Florida should throw the kitchen sink at Howard Dean and the rest of DNC snobs. Why can’t there golden Obama win PA with 6 weeks, 10 million in ads, and the media doing his dirty work for him?? Anyone?

Obama supporters just want to SPIN.
Obama won a LOT of red states. This is a credit to him, but in all fairness does NOTHING for him in the general election.
The fact that he has huge problems in major democratic states, espeically the swing states, DEVASTATES his chances in the general election.
While Obama supporters stamp up and down that its about DELEGATES , it isnt about delegates anymore.
Its about delegates IF he can get 2024 delegates. He CANT.
So its about an AGRUMENT to superdelegates.
That changes the whole thing.

“Unfortunately, these voters, especially white working class males, have never been won by a democratic nominee for decades. They respond to the tough talking, fear tactics of the Republicans.”
Excuse me: They were won by Bill Clinton in 96, and heavily contested by Al Gore in 2000. Besides, Obama’s also runs in trouble with working class women, older voters and Hispanics.

Get real Young kids
Obama wins most of the college kids – most of the college kids do not have wife & kids. They are not worried about paying health insurance, paying the bills and saving money for retirement. They are so addicted with internet. They think choosing president of America is fun.

Roxanne…I am white working class and I consider myself to be well educated.I have enough education to make the decision that I don’t what Obama as my president.

democratic Party can make a history by nominating a person with out winning PA/OH/NJ/NY/TX/CA.
Get real super delegates.

Jake
I think him not winning is because all the Bitter people that cling to there guns and go to church that he considers racist don’t like him!
Or maybe its the typical white people that run to the other side of the street when they see a Black person like his Grandmother (even thou it was an aggressive panhandler) and Jesse Jackson
Or maybe PA is at a time when everybody is seeing him for what he is – An Elitist Liar Socialist Hate America Fraud!!

To be fair here Obama has won very few Blue States, he won in states that no Dem will ever win. This does not mean he did not win any Blue states I think he won one or two!
Please Save us from Socialism and vote for McCain!!

No apologies needed.
Obama will not win Penn. all the major blue states he has lost except for Illinois. What does that tell you about the GE. If obama is the nominee the map of USA will look like after Reagan’s 2nd election. 1 state blue all the rest red.

toby – Whats wrong with that?

She is going to triumph today! I anticipate a lead in high double digits. And the same will hold in each state yet to primary. And she will handily beat McCain in November.
Clinton/Edwards 2008!!!!

White women and old white folks! That’s why he’s not going to win the primary. That’s her most loyal base, and they will continue to vote for her as long as she’s in the race.
And you would you please stop grouping all races into ‘working class voters’. The majority of black voters are technically ‘working class’, and they are voting for Obama. Stop trying to avoid the topic of race and be specific. It’s WHITE working class voters you’re talking about.

There’s a number of reasons. First, Pennsylvania isn’t really a “blue state” but rather two blue cities and a red state in between. That means the support/endorsement of those two mayors and Rendell is much bigger than it might be in a state like New Jersey where the two largest cities aren’t so crucial.
Second, this is pennsylvania where endorsements and establishment cred means a lot more than in other areas. Running as a non-establishment candidate is a huge disadvantage in PA.
And now, I’m off to vote Obama for change!

Doug
bigger state is defined not by the size, but by the population. they do not have enough delegates count needed to win in November. may be i can pay the bills to send you to school

tomdavies:
If it’s all about superdelegates, it’s still an Obama win!
Obama 65- Clinton 5 or something like that since super Tuesday. Obama +5 just in the last two weeks.
Even a big PA win will not start a “rush” of Supers to Clinton. However, a small PA win or loss for Clinton could start that “rush” to Obama — if not now, then in two weeks after a small IN win or loss and a BIG NC Win for Obama!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Obama didn’t want to play Election Day cash for the workers in PA.
He was too busy buying off the Superdelegates with his cash, instead of wasting it on the machine to help him.
As of the last report I read, Obama had spent 3 times as much money buying Superdelegates as Hillary.
Yup….not only do their votes count more than us….they can get paid for them!
Bet most of you didn’t know that while cheering the Superdelegate count.

Doug,
Even the 9/11 Commission stated that Bush had more opportunities lost to stop the plan in 9 months, than Clinton did in 8 years.
Everytime Clinton tried to deal with al Qaeda, the Republicans accused him of Wagging the Dog.
Nevermind the fact, he caught the people who attacked us on his watch and it didn’t bankrupt the country either.

Obama refusing to pay poor polling workers in PA to help.
But decides to buy off Superdelegates instead….is the epitome of elitist.

Psst…Doug those were copies of documents not the originals.
How can you destroy files if there are copies all over DC AND they aren’t even the originals?
LOL

This Dems nomination fight is simply a fight all about Clintons, the fight between anti-clintons and pro-clintons…
People know Obama is just a typical black politican who is dreaming of being a president some day…
he is just a Puppet used by anti-clintons in this fight…
That is just simply true….

Because the Justice Dept, under Dubya investigated, and discovered the obvious, it wasn’t intended to suppress evidence.
If he stole and distroyed all the copies and the originals the would have faced a stiffer penalty.

“some segments of America simply are too suspicious of a black man to ever vote for one.”
There are MANY reasons that ANYbody — including un-rich voters of color — would do well to be suspicious of this PARTICULAR “black man”.
One’s his unearned and misrepresented “anti-war”-candidate status.
Remember that Obama started out saying he voted against the Iraq adventure, but in fact wasn’t even IN the U.S. Senate at the time. Since Obama has actually BEEN a Senator, he’s voted just as Clinton has, EXCEPT that Obama — the supposed anti-war candidate — chose not to vote on the Feingold-Reid Amendment to the 2008 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, requiring withdrawal of all combat troops from Iraq by June 30, 2008.

For anyone who didn’t read Bible, the Fellowship or the Family are the most common words to describe Christians…

Anybody from PA here?
I wonder how it’s going for Hill.

@crisis08: Yes I know I have been subject to that quiet often, I don’t write slander I ask questions but trust me don’t mention his middle name, his roots, or anything that questions his association because out it goes .

Doug for you sake I hope she beats him by 15% lol then you can find something else to speak about

Talking about selfishness?
what about FL & MI voters?

Because Obama announced he was running for president after only one year in the senate. Clinton waited seven years before she announced. It’s about experience.

Leaving out FL. and Mi. is the only way Obama can win.

You don’t buy the Obama spin that he couldn’t have been expected to win Pennsylvania. Fair enough.
Did you buy the Clinton spin that she couldn’t be expected to win Iowa? Or Maryland? Or Wisconsin?
Will you buy the Clinton spin that she can’t be expected to win North Carolina?

When was Hillary the supposed frontrunner??? How about for the year that ended the night of the Iowa caucuses?
I get that you have resentments against the boys, but Senator Clinton was treated as the frontrunner from Day One in this race…until Obama proved he could go toe to toe with her.

@ P 3:15pm
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Please do your research…Dole won the white male vote in ’96! (46% – 43%)
OBAMA/WEBB ’08 & ’12

as a black supporter of sen. clinton
obama disinfranchised the black people when they started voting for him without trying to find out who he is,
what he is about, and what he would do
as president.
and doug,
why don’t you stop putting your family and the people you came from to shame.
your deceased ancestors are looking down on you crying their souls out bacause of what you have written here,
stop disgracing the family you came from
someone you know or are related to expects better of you.
and since none of us know you,
or will know you, stop disgracing your self before the cosmos

“Because of the immediacy all these problems, working class people are less susceptible to Obama’s soaring rhetoric, and aspirations of achieving post-partisan, post-racial solidarity.”
… especially when the soaring rhetoric’s coming from a hothouse electioneer who can’t maintain solidarity with his own grandmother …

Frankly I’m sick of hearing threats of riots if Obama isn’t handed the nomination. Had the media done it’s job instead of swooning like teenage girls, he would have been fully vetted and knocked out of the competition early on. America will never elect this man. You can count on it. So you’d better decide now if you’d rather have Clinton or McCain in the White House, because those are your only two choices.

“if they did start a riot, this would be right in line with obama leftist views”
By the time summer rolls around, most poor people, especially in the food-less cities, will have PLENTY to riot about.
Obama, in any case, only has “leftist views” when he’s talking to the (white) overseers of the “left” — for general consumption, he’s out there with Bush and Rice, dissing Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas (which ENDORSED Obama).

She was way way way ahead in polls (Feb 25th she was up by 20 points!), her grandfather is buried in the state and it’s a conservative (not in the political sense, in the living sense) state. Yeah Obama out spent her – he has more supporters – but very few knew who he was until March in Penn. So give the fella a break.
How does this reporter have a job?
Wow.
Obama 08!

“can i just eat my waffles”
Obama jettisoned the waffles gambit today, and went back to dissing Jimmy Carter — the rural white guy who DID win a Nobel Peace Prize — for meeting with Hamas. (Apparently the tender candidate judges that most of today’s non-”left” voters aren’t aware that Hamas ENDORSED Obama).

@Satish….
If you people would educate yourself and stop listening to the soundbites that the media avails, you would realize that Obama’s comments, albeit mangled, were not elitist whatsoever! A supporter asked Obama whether or not he thought that white people weren’t voting for him was simply because of his ethnicity. Obama took the high road and told them the same thing that he told Charlie Rose in 2004. The working white voter is tired of being lied to by the government and are bitter that they’re losing their jobs to immigrants or overseas. If the word cling would have been substitued with turn to and bitter would have been substituted with frustrated, this would be a non-issue.
BTW, if you don’t think that the working class of Americans have received a great education, then why are we near the bottom compared to other countries. A fact is a fact and I dare you to conduct your own survey regarding the location of Iraq or even basic U.S. policy…trust me, it’s frightening. Well-informed voters (not elitist voters because I know some people who are self-taught and didn’t graduate from high school)should be the ones that will write our history.
Unfortunately, people will vote because someone shoots whiskey, went duck hunting or plans to obliterate Iran. It’s really sad when you think about it!
OBAMA/WEBB ’08 & ’12

* Clinton started out 25 points ahead in PA
* Clinton had the support of the popular Governor and the whole state apparatus
* Bill Clinton won in PA 3 times – the primary and general in ’92, and then again in his reelection campaign in ’96. He has been campaigning hard there.
* Hillary had family roots in PA
* The PA demographics are favorable to Clinton (whiter, less educated, poorer, more women, more Catholics, and more people over the age of 65 than the national average)
* These advantages are priceless, so of course Obama had to spend a lot more money than Clinton. What being outspent 3-1 really shows is that Clinton is broke and can’t raise the kind of money Obama can. If she had more money, she would have most certainly used it.
* It also shows that Obama is competing in every state, which is the strategy that has won him more states, votes, and delegates. Not fully contesting every state has not worked well for Clinton.
* Clinton’s own Pennsylvania spokesman said Clinton would be “unbeatable” in Pennsylvania.

Belle Starr,
I think it is a bit extreme to say that Hamas endorsed Obama.
But I do agree with you on one point. The more this campaign goes, the more he looks like an ordinary politician. I think it was wrong for him to disavow Carter.
Sooner or later, someone will have to talk to Hamas. At least, that’s what history has shown: South African, North Ireland and so on. So I think that Carter taking this initiative despite all the critics is rather courageous.
It is the can of courage that today politicians don’t have, especially when they are in the mix of a political campaign.
Did you see Hillary yesterday? She was threatening: Bomb, bomb, bomb! Bomb, bomb, Iran!!!

If Obama wins that means a win for Rev.Wright, Ayers,Farrakhan and the anti-Americans that think like them.
America deserves better.

I remember when Obama said he could when anywhere given enough time. I guess six weeks isn’t enough?

sen. clinton has had the deck stack against her on every level
the media has not helped us to examine this obama
so what has happened
the media has been telling us she needs to get out, he is the one.
and we don’t know him
so what has happened everytime the voters get a chance to have their say
they keep her in and it gives us a chance to learn him a little more.
and the more we learn about him-the more we know he is not the one.
we need to ignore the pundits and media people and just keep listening to each other we the voters
and we will come out all right.

Max, 6 weeks is nothing when you’re up against the Clinton machine

“Why can’t the frontrunner win working class voters?”
CNN’s exit polls say that he pretty much just did… with 53% of the male vote compared to 44% for Hillary.
She gets 55% of the female vote, many of them elderly, and gets more of the retired male voters.
So yeah, he *HAS* the working class voter on his side.

that is not right
cnn just said the white men voted for the white woman
all the exit polls sofar say it has broke along the line of race.
white women and white men have been voting for hillary.

Five minutes or so ago, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews were exchanging stricken looks on msnbc, on having to report that the PA primary is “too early” to call, rather than “too close” to call. It was comical, in a horrible way.

Fox News has just declared Hillary the winner!
Rise, Hillary, Rise!’08

MSNBC has just declared Hillary the winner!
Rise, Hillary, Rise!’08

I think it is pretty clear that race is the primary reason… represented by the fact that white women are voting for a white woman… not being critical, but these are the facts… it doesn’t help that in Ohio Nafta-gate broke just prior to the primary, and now Wright and cling-gate… so whatever gains he may have made with aggressive campaigning, quickly lost… but the writing is on the wall in my opinion… she can’t win… and I wouldn’t vote for her… but he will win the “big” states in November…

Barack can’t with with all the money in the world, all the media in his favor, all his trashing of Hillary, all the left side of the party supporting him, all the BIG endorsements, etc. and still he CAN’T WIN the big States! To me he is a loser!

Here’s my nominee for Worst Pennsylvania Primary Result coverage — MSNBC. Olbermann is actually stammering and sputtering, Russert is demonizing the Clintons, Matthews is cackling at Russert’s tirade…
Who won? Even with the 24/7 campaigning by the Obamedia??

Wiht Pennsysylvania counted- Baack is still winning nationally in every category.Barack is still leading the delegate vote,which is the litmus test and will remain so long as the Clintons dont move the bar or change the game. The Clinton spin is the spin that the media follows. It boggarts and is bodacoius. It is absolutely amazing that Barack has maintained his lead against the Clinton Machine. As a Philadelphian, the Clintons own our Govenor Rendell. Philadelphia politicians are financially indebted to Clintons. Michael Nutter has be bought and sold. For Barack to go up against this established Clinton machine and still maintan his lead is amazing.

Spending money…Give me a break! If Clinton was able to raise the money that Barack raised, she too would have spent it. Dont act like she has standards or integrity. She is a chameleon and changes her colors state by state.

Anyone think that any democrat is going to win in states like Wyoming or any of the small states that Obama won in December. He can’t win the big states.

Too many bloggers think that this is a race of “good” and “evil”. It occurs to me that the media has not really given Obama’s record of accomplishment at all.
And that is because he has little or none….A long term in IL with no real accomplishments. A community organizer? give me a break. I was a community organizer in the 80′s and that is not real experience. I think Obama’s greatest accomplishment in his early days was a phenomonal voter registration drive.
In IL In 1999, Obama voted against requiring school boards to put Internet
pornography filters on school computers meant for students’ use. In
2001, he voted “present” on a bill to keep pornographic book and
video stores and strip clubs from setting up within 10 ,0 000 feet of
schools and churches. In 2003, he voted in the Health and Human
Services Committee for a bill requiring “age appropriate”
sex-education for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Despite his talk of promoting reading among inner-city youth, Obama
has repeatedly opposed bills designed to promote discipline in public
schools. In 2001, he twice voted “no” on a bill to let school
districts require unruly students to complete suspensions before they
can be shuffled into a new school district. he voted “present” on an
almost unanimously passed bill requiring adult prosecution for
students who fire guns on school grounds.
Obama has been markedly soft on crime. In 2001, he voted against a
bill that added extra penalties for crimes committed in furtherance
of gang activities. he also voted against a bill making it a criminal
offense for accused gang members, free on bond or on probation, to
associate with known gang members. In 1999, he was the only state
senator to vote against a bill prohibiting early prison release for
criminal sexual abusers.
And in the Senate he co-sponsered a bill that the media used to make fun of….it says that lobbyists can pay for anything as long as the government officials they are lobbying don’t sit down. He also voted with big oil interests on the Bush-Cheney bill.
And since then he hasn’t had time to chair the committee he was placed on or even vote near as much as Hillary has since this campaign began. His record is mainly this campaign. So we know he’s good at fundraising…but we are going to find out if the historic spending levels can buy a state. From Romneys experience I don’t think it’s going to work.

I am so tried of the bias and un-objective reporting by the media. Do these guys only look at the cup as half empty or what? Why do we continue to hear — Why Obama can’t put her away? Well… WHY can’t Hillary put him away? Look she has lead in double digits in every state and he has manage to cut her lead by more than half and in some cases actually winning the state overall (i.e., Texas -which incidentally no one acknowledges). Now please be objective, Obama is not running against someone un-established, goodness sake this woman’s husband has WON the white house TWICE. Please ask the question, WHAT is wrong with HILLIARY? Why can’t she put HIM away????

The real blow came from that farse of a so-called debate the other night…that’s why he didn’t win PA.
Talk about piling on, ABC anchors Gibson and Stephanopolous, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Rendell, and Nutter.

I have been involved in politics for over 50 years and frankly they are so sleasy so often that all of this is just hype.
First, Hillary Clinton should have won Pennsylvania by a larger margin than she won Ohio. All things being equal she has several major advantages.
1. It is a carbon copy in many ways of Ohio.
2. It is her home state and that is a very big advantage. People who pay no attention to politics will vote for a home state person. As will people who have something to gain by having a local become President.
3. Since she was going to win it anyway, it has been hyped as the only state that matters which will cost her in the General Election.
4. Obama has the most sensible plans that have the best chance of succeeding. Experience alone has never produced a good President. But the media is nothing if not shallow and vapid when it comes to a real debate.
All they are capable of doing is rerunning ads, doing polls and basically gossip the East Coast is so wound up in strategies they do not cover realities or long range objective issues. That favors Hillary as well.
However, the General Election is another matter. McCain is an adult. Hillary for all her experience is not mature or able to think long range.
She and her husband have always immediately and often erroneously blamed or claimed that their problems were those of their victims. Eight years of it got very old very fast and I was a supporter. One person committed suicide, Al Gore’s chances were hurt as much by the Clinton games as the Republican impeachment. Frankly repeating that is depressing. And it has already started.
Hillary Clinton swift boated herself. In the General Election she is no match for McCain as Commander in Cheif to any voter who looks at the surface. Bosnia and her Red Phone ad were both monumental mistakes. Sometimes it seems the only game the Clintons play is how much can I screw up and still get away with it?
My son is a Democrat and guess what. He supported Hillary and is now supporting McCain. She damned the Democrats to extintion is his mind.
More and more people outside the state that is currently voting, are tired of the sandbox stuff and will not listen to or vote for a Democrat. They have tuned in turned on to the campaign and dropped out with the endless money spent and refusal of the pundits to cover or discuss issues. Or allow the candidates to really debate.
Meanwhile McCain looks better all the time despite everything at least he is perceived as an adult that is going about the business of government.
It is sad that the East Coast press is into strategy that they do not care about anything else. First, they brought us the War in Iraq and non exitant weapons of mass destruction,as well as George Bush the second. Now we get the next royal dynastic nominee which will make 28 years of mediocrity or seriously flawed candidates from only two families. That should not happen in a democracy.

Well, I don’t know what the media is up to. However, I do know that the same media that sold us on Bush (not me!) twice and helped the Bush administration push the WMD story in Iraq and helped to push the war, are the same media that is desperately and visciously pushing Obama on us. Uh, no thanks! We would rather make our own choice since the media choices have been utter failures. Since the media loves Obama, they should give him an anchor job or make him one of their useless, bias pundits.

Why Can’t Obama Win Pennsylvania? Real simple. Whether people want to accept it or not these blue-collar white voters in Pennsylvania won’t vote for a black man. Simple as that. They are uneducated people who can’t make a logical vote. They will vote for John McCain in the fall over Obama, which is a vote AGAINST they’re economic interest, which is a FOOLISH vote!! Cut your nose off to spite your face blue-collar white voters because Barack will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. Also when John McCain does nothing to help your economic situation. I don’t want to here you cryin’ and whinin’ about how bad things are for you. Nobody will care because you had a chance to CHANGE that. You won’t vote for the man because he is black and that’s the bottom line. That is FOOLISH, NOT USING COMMON SENSE, STUPID, DUMB etc.
Hillary can’t catch him in the delegate count and the Democratic Party is not willing to risk the fallout of losing the voters that have voted for Obama.
Mainly the African-American vote.
If they take this nomination away from Obama and he has earned it fair and square you will see the Democratic Party lose its most loyal base.
Some White democrats are simply fickle and when they get mad then they protest by voting against what is best for them in the long run. THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOO STUPID!!!!
You’re letting your emotions cloud your better judgment. Frail emotions change like the weather and when you come back to reality and realize what you have done then it’s too late. It’s like acting out in a road rage situation. You take the law into your own hands because your stupid emotions took over and clouded your judgment, now you do something stupid like kill someone and you go to trial and go to jail for 20 to life. Now was that decision better for you and your family? Or should you have used some logical reasoning and calmed yourself down, realizing that letting your anger get the best of you is going to put you on the losing end.
You will regret putting McCain in office. Then you will end up more bitter than you already are.

OBAMA cannot close the deal. Why? Cause the “the new politics”is a lie. He’s been more negative than Hillary. You totally lost me when you said the Clintons’s were racist. I don’t have a racist bone in my body and I still think Hillary is the best candidate.