The talking heads are already touting the significance of Clinton's double digit victory in PA.  That threshold had been established as an arbitrary yardstick of victory against Obama's increasing success in diminishing HRC's >20% polling numbers of a few short weeks ago.  If Clinton could hold him off and pull out a double digit victory, her campaign could prove its viability.  The facts seem to be, however, she didn't make it.

I started this as a comment in another diary, but it got so long I decided to just write my own.

I've been trying to find the words that fit how I feel about this campaign at this point and explain how I feel about our two Dem candidates.  Without question, I'd rather have HRC than John Bomb Bomb McCain as POTUS; but I am very not thrilled about voting for her.  It's come down to principle.

I've said before that I'm definitely leaning toward Obama in my state's primary tomorrow, and I went so far as to attend an Obama GOTV rally yesterday, so don't think for a minute this is an anti-Obama diary.  The participation and enthusiasm was impressive, and encouraged me to take a closer look at the guy. I've heard a lot of the speeches and watched the YouTube videos; but for the real meat of his positions, I went right to his website at barackobama.com.  

When Democrats regained control of Congress, we all had high hopes for change.  We thought they’d stand up for their convictions.  But when the going got tough, on Gonzales’ crimes, on Iraq funding, on the Mukasey nomination, on impeachment, on enforcing subpoenas, on accountability for the Plame outing, on any number of difficult decisions, our Congress let us down.

Of course, there were the inevitable excuses for every time they caved.  The votes aren’t there, this isn’t the right time, there are more important issues, etc.  On issue after issue, the Democratic Congress caved, choosing expediency over principle.

I'll occasionally switch on the boob tube as background noise while getting ready for work in the morning, just to see if anything has changed in the world while I was asleep.  Usually not.  This morning, however, I was astounded, astounded I tell ya, at a toy commercial that aired.  It snapped my head around and made me say, "Are they freaking kidding me?"  

The problems with touch screen voting are so widespread, I need not reiterate them here; but every other system in place also has its vulnerabilities.  After considering the options available; I have devised, I believe, an excellent system that, if adopted nationwide would provide the ease of use of touch screen (an admitted big plus for that system) along with reliability and verification.

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I'll back off the implications of that question a bit by acknowledging that I've had some very good experiences; but an interaction with a Blockbuster store manager last night royally pissed me off and got me wondering if "the customer is always right" has passed into oblivion.

Here’s the problem.  The government uses inherently religious terminology to describe a civil contract.  That terminology is "marriage".  Through all of the discussion, controversy, and acrimony swirling about the concept of same-sex unions, the fundamental problem with the idea has rarely been addressed.  In trying to force or persuade states to recognize gay marriage, we are inadvertently bringing an entrenched church/state union to the fore.