Hillary won by 10%!! What a tremendous victory for her!
BULLSHIT !
Barack Obama won alot in PA today. This isn't spin, it's pure, straight-arrow fact below the fold.
After the March primaries, the political analysts turned their attention to Pennsylvania. We were polled, polled, and polled again by every organization with a telephone. At that time, Hillary Clinton had a 20-point lead. TWENTY POINTS! Holy cow!
Six weeks later, Hillary didn't get her 20-point win. She didn't even get a 15-point win. She got a 10-point win. That's a victory??? When HALF of your margin abandons you?
If she's the better choice, why didn't she WIDEN her margin beyond 20%? Why couldn't she even MAINTAIN that lead? Hell, why didn't she even keep MOST of it?
Because she's NOT the better choice, and the 10% that left her realized that before they voted. In American politics, you don't swing an entire state 20 points or more in six weeks or even in six months. The Obama Campaign could never have hoped for an outright win here. Victory is had when you stop your opponent dead in their tracks and maybe even shave their victory down.
How do you claim victory when you blow half your lead, when you can't maintain your expected margin of victory, and when you are clearly unable to BUILD on that lead over a six-week period?
Barack Obama walks away from PA with over One Million votes, 63 more delegates, half of Mrs. Clinton's margin of victory, strong financial support, and a bright future in Indiana, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina.
If that isn't a win out of a state that had you down 20 points, I don't know what is.
Reporting for wKos in Westmoreland County, PA, I'm Celtic Merlin.