All eyes are on Pennsylvania as the Democratic presidential hopefuls make final appeals ahead of tomorrow’s primary. And the candidates are preparing for the best – and the worst.
Most observers and polls put Hillary Clinton on top, but the lead remains contentious. Rasmussen Reports gives the Senator from New York a five point lead over rival Barack Obama. Clinton’s campaign, however, projects an eleven-point lead.
Regardless of how many points she wins by, Clinton’s going to use all of her power to employ a win as a persuasive tool to woo more voters – and the ever-important superdelegates.
No doubt Clinton’s aware that Obama’s got more dough. Finance reports released today show quite the cash-flow gap:
Obama, an Illinois senator, had $42.5 million available for spending on primary elections and caucuses, his campaign said yesterday. Clinton, a New York senator, had about $8 million in cash and $10.3 million in debt, according to her spokesman, Jay Carson, and a filing with the U.S. Federal Election Commission.
Clinton will couple this data with a potential win to tell voters – and the ever-important superdelegates – that she’s again the comeback kid. In fact, her team’s already started the spin cycle by highlighting a report showing that Obama’s outspending the former first lady 2 to 1. Or, to be more precise, 2.3 to 1.
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Just as Clinton’s aware of her campaign’s financial inequality, Obama’s aware of the ground he’s covered in Pennsylvania. Polling from March put Clinton ahead by about 15 points. Now Obama’s got his own story to spin – and he’s doing it, telling a Pennsylvania radio station: “I’m not predicting a win. I’m predicting it’s going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect.”
Radio isn’t the only realm where Obama’s spreading his message. As you can imagine, the Senator’s using some of his money to fire off a commercial campaign. The politico has aired four news ad over the past week. All of them take a firm stand against Clinton. Obama has also offered some oral jabs, saying “If you are feeling cynical and your basic attitude is, ‘You know what? Things can’t really change,’ then you may decide Sen. Clinton’s your choice.” He can’t use the word “bitter,” of course.
Here’s Obama’s latest campaign ad: “Reason.”
rickroberts
Get your big nose out of the air, Barack, before a bug flies up it!
James
That’s a mature resposne Ricky!
Dom
Well, at least he doesn’t have his head up his ass like Hillary. And I guess she was against DADT and DOMA the same way she was against NAFTA.
James
PS: Please excuse the spelling errors.
Leland Frances
There’s no room in the Obama’s ass for his own head what with so many like you embedded there, Dom. But I hear Donnie McClurkin sings for y’all every night.
Regardless, I’m sure your helping impact the great one’s bowels is justified given all Obama’s done to overturn DOMA in the four years he’s been in the US Senate. … What? …He’s done nothing in all that time?
Well, how about all he’s done to overturn DADT in those four years? … What? … He’s done nothing in all that time?
OK, OK. How about the gay rights law in Illinois that he cosponsored and got passed? … What? …He actually didn’t do either? …But he’s repeatedly said he did! …What? … He lied????
Someone’s shit sure does stink after all.
jacksmith
MY FELLOW “BITTERâ€, STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE 🙂
If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of “BITTERâ€!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. 🙁
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose 😉 husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose 😉 husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose 😉 husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose 😉 husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary’s than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. 🙂
Best regards
jacksmith… Working Class 🙂
p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! 🙂
If you don’t know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering…
You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. 🙂
Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. And I could go on, and on…
Dan
And if you think Hillary Clinton, who grew up a privileged child in a wealthy Chicago suburb; who supported fucking barry goldwater as a student; who spent most of her time in one executive branch or another (including Wal-Mart’s managing board)…
if you think she’s more working-class/real/in-touch/whatever than Barack Obama, who was raised by a single mother; who built everything he has on his own; who started his political career representing one of chicago’s poorest district…
well then, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
Steve
Who really represents the middle class?
Just look at the money!
The big donors in this campaign are supporting Clinton. The problem is that they are only allowed to give $2300, and most of Clinton’s donors have already given that much. They are the doctors, lawyers, executives, and generally rich people who can write $2300 checks without blinking.
Obama is getting his support from the middle class, mostly in $100 donations. Most of his donors are allowed to give more, because they have not hit the limit. But, most of his donors are middle class. So they can’t write big checks. The most that they can do is write another small check every so often.
Why the difference? It’s because Clinton’s husband spent his career pandering to the wealthy and screwing the middle class, and she helped him. She went on foreign trips during his administration, to help close two dozen trade deals to export twenty million jobs and hundreds of whole factories. That’s why all of Wal-Mart’s manufacturing jobs are overseas, and only the low-paying distribution and stocking jobs are here.
When Clinton claims to have anything to do with the middle class, she is just lying.
Mr C
Hey Leland and JackSmith,
YOU ARE SUPERDELEGATE IDIOTS! HA HA HA
Fellow Obama Supporters and open minded Democrats who would vote for whom ever gets the nod. Check this out!
Obama has already won, the math is irrefutable:
(per Delegate Calculator and RCP’s averages)
HILLARY”S NET DELEGATES FROM WINS
PA by 8% = 12
IN by 10% = 8
WV by (N/A – Assume10%) = 2
KY by (N/A – Assume10%) = 5
PR by (N/A ” Assume 10%) = 5
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TOTAL NET DELEGATES ESTIMATED = 32
OBAMA”S NET DELEGATES FROM WINS
NC by 16% = 19
OR (N/A – Assume10%) = 6
MT (N/A – Assume10%) = 2
SD (N/A – Assume10%) = 1
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TOTAL NET DELEGATES ESTIMATED = 28
171 Current Pledged Delegate Lead For Obama
” 4 Net Delegates won by Hillary
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167 Delegate lead for Obama at the end of the primaries.
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DELEGATE COUNT AFTER PRIMARIES
Obama: 1697 + 218 SDs = 1915
Hillary: 1537 + 246 SDs = 1783
Around 330 undeclared SDs remain, Obama only needs 109 of them (33%) to hit 2024 and his current and rising average on Declared SDs is 47%).
Obama Supporters, chill on this, the game is over and they’ve lost. But we will go on until June it’s only fair
And to you Gays who have a hard time giving a Bi-racial Man or as our white media is claiming him as BLACK a chance think about that when you someone violates you for being Gay. BIAS is BIAS in any form.
Leland isn’t great to be Black even if you hate the fact that you are and won’t support?????
Besides I don’t see where making 109,000,000 has much heart and compassion for someone making 109.00$ a week.
Who only mentions being born in PA when she is running for something any other time it’s Suburban conservative Illinois or now my home state on NY….GO FIGURE!
OBAMA/CLINTON 08!
CLINTON/OBAMA 08!
LEARN IT! DEMS RULE!
Charley
All politicians are lawyers. Not sure I would vote for a mechanic on the basis of his ability to change a tire.
Peter Pan
Jerusalem Post.
Clinton: If Iran attacks Israel, the US could ‘totally obliterate them’
It is within the United States’ power to destroy Iran if it attacks Israel, warned Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hilary Clinton in an interview on ABC television Monday night.
“In the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,” said Clinton.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208422655426&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I think if the US attacks Iran over Israel the US will be history. There will be many a country I can think of that have had enough of the bullying from the US. Hillary, be careful, your slip is showing!
M Shane
Re: “Clinton: If Iran attacks Israel, the US could totally obliterate them” she was just bragging about what an exce;llent Commander and Chief she would be. Get us Nuced right off by Russia or China. Smart hawk.
Apart from the haircut she’s almost exactly like McCain a right wing pawn.
Did anyone notice that Bush’s Neocon TV network FOX has a huge promotion going for Hillary and against Obama.: They accuse him of being a “liberal”.of all things. Just figure what that makes her. Recall that at the beginning of the campaign, Rupert Murdoch, father of neocon twisted jourmnalism held her first big fund raiser? Maybe Clinton and McCain can run on the same ticket.: they believe in most of the sam things.
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M Shane
BTW Hilarys lead fell from 16 pts to 6 pts in about a week.
M Shane
Two more things;
The politicos in Penn believe that most of the professional, educated women voters will go for Obama. Generally, that is the case that educated people do support Obama: e.g. Samantha Powers and Naomi Klein Strangely, and incomprehensibly, the ones who they think will go for Hillary are the uneducated working class who don’t realize that they are jobless because of Bill and the NAFTA deception.
Afroguapo
+1 DAN, very astute comment.