The pundits agreed:
Given her desperate need to make a dent in Obama's vast pledged-delegate lead...
Given that her campaign was not merely broke, but deep in the red...
Given that, a few months ago, polls showed her leading in Pennsylvania by 20 points or more...
Given the support of the state's well-greased Democratic machine...
Given that, demographically, the state seemed to have been designed by a benevolent God with the sole purpose of giving Hillary a blowout win...
...She would have to take the state by double digits to even pretend she was still in the race.
Well.
Once again the Comeback Kid has exceeded expectations.
Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory:
9.31%.
All right, you misogynistic, Hillary-bashing media: put that in your washer and spin it.
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and don't forget that she has gotten more votes than anybody (if you count her run for class president back in Podunk, Arkansas) ...
9, 9.3, or 10 it does not really matter. If HRC or Obama wins in November by that margin it would be called a landslide. Be honest for a change is that not what you would call it.
Ha ha thats so funny. Why didn't I think about that. The next time someone is on Morning Joe and JS opens his mouth about how Hillary won by double digits, they should remind him that it actually by a triple digits of 9.3? whatever. i bet that will shut him up.
the old guard in the party doesn't want to loose all these new and young voters that the Sen from illinois has brought to the table. they can actually give the dems more power and hill and bill can mess that up if they keep going, so you know the old dudes will put a monkey wrench if hills bs, game set and match
How has a black freshman senator from Illinois been able to best the Clinton political machine? The Clintons have been building their political dynasty for 40 years. That Hillary has not been able to best Obama is the real story.
This is Obama's first run for president but this is the 4th presidential campaign that the Clintons have run, yet Hillary is behind in by every measure. Hillary"s campaign is sucking wind; it has been one of the worst managed campaigns of all times.
So, the question should be raised: WHY has Hillary done so poorly? Especially if one is to take into consideration what Chuck Todd likes to say. "With nearly the entire PA political establishment supporting her Hillary gets an extra 3% advantage right off the bat in PA."
Although, Hillary may have won 55% of the vote and 82 delegates in PA; Obama walked away with 73 delegates.
Hillary was bested by Obama in the delegate count in PA. Hillary"s 9 delegate lead is just over 6% not 10% which would have yielded Hillary 16 more delegates instead of 9 delegates over Obama in PA. Obama is eating the Clintons lunch.
One has to get a good chuckle from the fact that the Clinton brand is being bested by, as Hillary likes to say the "not experienced enough," black freshman senator from Illinois.
and they keep saying he cant put her way, contra-re monfrare
I have to tell you, this made me smile and I thank you for that. I don't have the stomach for politics but I'm hooked on this primary thanks to Sen. Obama.
Go look up the old joke "the Aristocrats" on the web. THAT explains Hillary, Bill and little Chelsea (whoring for her mom). All they need is a donkey and grandpa to complete the scenario. Shameless redneck, racist trash. BO for POTUS!
Since HC is running a repub campaign I vote for McCain as the Grandpa and the donkey can be no one but Bill.
How in the hell did the media round 9.31 up to 10? The media declared that Hillary needed double digits, so what, did they just figure 'close enough'? Last time I heard when you rounded off 9.3, it wasn't 10 it was 9.
Guess 5 or below is great story "Obama kicks ass", and 10 or more is great story "Hillary kicks ass" but 5-10 isn't really a story at all just "Kinda what we expected" so you know there was no way the media would let it be 5-10, if they could help it.
Gotta love the subtle manipulation of our media.
Only an elitist would understand decimals and significant digits.
They rounded first:
45.3 is rounded down for Obama
54.6 is rouned up for Clinton
THEN they subtract.
Please for the love of God may we have a president who undertstands math?
54.6 for Hillary
45.3 for Obama
54.6 - 45.3 = 9.3 so you should round down and say 9 or just say just slightly over 9 percent or w/e.
However for the media being the genius's they are don't know you round after your done with the math not before. So they rounded up the 54.6 and rounded down the 45.3 thus 55-45 and thus 10 percent.
I watched till the wee hours that night. The problem was that the percentage with 99% of the precincts counted was at the 10 point range but it took all night to get the results from the last 1% of the precincts. The must've heavily gone for Obama because by morning the results showed a different story and it was dropping back to 9%. Now why can't Hillary close the deal?! And why can't the MSM ever bother to correct itself when it ends up being wrong?
Using the methodology of rounding numbers first and then subtracting you never get odd numbers. That's why the margin fluctuated between 8 and 10. When for msot of the night it was actuall 9. When it was actually 54.4 for Clinton and 45.6 for Obama it was reproted as 54 percent and 46 percent when in fact it was 8.8 percent or 9 percent if you are rounding. By now everyone knows it was 9 and not double digit. The only people singing off of that sheet of music are the Clinton Campaign, Faux News, Pat Buchanan, and Joe Scarborough.
Maybe the MSM should clarify percentages by stating that they're reporting whole numbers. That way, the stupid people, won't be mislead into thinking that these aren't double or triple digits.
Now the MSM is stupid this is the same MSM that mollycoddled Obama for months and crucified Clinton.
How fickle you are as is also the MSM.
Obama shot himself in the foot explaining the white working class to the billionaires club in California and proved that he is completely out of touch with them. He seems to understand the people in his lofty circle and that is about it. He does well with the people who shop at whole foods but there are not a lot of them in Wilkes Barre. This is not his first elitist remark when he was explaining Michelle's remark about not running again he said in eight years we will be making a lot more money by then and will be traveling in different circles. He no doubt equates success with making a lot of money. Your greatness is best measured after you die and the number of people who miss you. As far as I know they are still not putting luggage racks on hearses. I wish he would pay off his college loan my granddaughter is having trouble getting one.
Obama paid off his students loans. Since Obama knows what it's like to have student loans, he's very aware and has stated that he will do all he can to make sure that all students have access to higher education.
Since McCain's daddy and granddaddy were admirals, doesn't seem like he had students loans while he was at college. Did Hillary have student loans? Doubtful. But since Hillary and Bill have 109 mil and McCain's wife has over 100 mil, maybe they can help out there.
And it makes me angry, too, that BushCo have made it so harder for college students to pay for education.
(Gibbons)
Your rambling on is about nothing, you need to lay off the KOOL-ADE. PAID TROLLER
HA! No kidding, Jazz42!
True I am not an Obama zombie.
what flavor is the cool-aide
No, we elitist, would not have you as an Obama supporter. In this right is wrong world of yours, everything is backwards. See what happens in November! (Obama WINS! :)
How sad.
The Clinton's are masters at trying to spin things. The majority of American people are not are going to fall for their pathetic behavior any longer.
I'll give her the octuple-digit win: 9.3100001%.
Beat me to the punch.
I'll bet Hillary's spinners are kicking themselves for not thinking of that first.
They know they'd have got it past the stupid MSM
I just heard Terry McCauliff on Larry King bragging about her "10 point win". Oh well, liars attract liars, what can ya say?
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