23 April 2008

Clinton By 8

As exepcted Sen. Hillary Clinton was the victor in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary last night. As the coverage on CNN and MSNBC came to a close at midnight ET, the numbers had the former First Lady beating Sen. Barack Obama by 10 percentage points.

But then Delaware County, just south of Philadelphia, reported their numbers.

With a few last minute stragglers still to report, the close to final result brought Clinton's margin into the "dreaded" single-digit territory:
Clinton 54%
Obama 46%
Either way, a win is still a win and the party's contest continues further. Clinton actually gave a half-way decent speech last night. She was gracious and her voice didn't make me want to slit my wrists. Obama, on the other hand, seemed tired and off his game. To me that makes him more human. He's not the robot that the Clintons have become.

Despite this victory, the math still isn't there for Hillary Clinton. She still has to perform impossibly well in each and every one of the remaining states...a rather tall order. She's out of money (although I'm sure her plea for donations last night gave her coffers a boost) and trails in national surveys.

And so we soldier forward. On to North Carolina and Indiana...two states where Obama leads in current polling.