And So It Shall Continue
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:35pm Geoff
Sen. Clinton’s ten point win last evening in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary assures that the perpetual race between her and Sen. Obama for the Democratic nomination will remain as such for quite awhile, until the Democratic convention it increasingly appears. How this will ultimately affect the dynamics of the general election campaign, assuming it ever comes, still cannot be determined. What can be though is the fact that Sen. Clinton will now spend even more time doing much of Sen. McCain’s job for him, preparing, as Rich Lowry points out, “the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama. And she’s softening Obama up for McCain, prodding at and exposing her fellow Democrats’ weaknesses.”
The reality is that if these voters don’t come home for Sen. Obama in Pennsylvania and Ohio he will lose the election. Period. There is no Democratic path to victory without the electoral votes of those two states, states which Sen. Obama has now been shellacked in by an opponent who was supposed to have been vanquished months ago.
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