Pennsylvania
It’s about freaking time. 6 weeks since the last primary. Can you imagine if they stopped the Stanley Cup playoffs for 6 weeks after the second round? I think I’ve taken it well. With no new episodes of 24 the primaries had been doing a decent job filling the entertainment gap. Not that I’m completely without entertainment, Doctor Who has been pretty good this year.
So most polls still have Clinton ahead by 5 or 6 points. Frankly this amazes me. She can’t win the nomination or the general, she’s a proven liar, and has come out against democracy. Obama’s having record turnout at his rallies and consistently raised more money than any other candidate this year. So I guess the question is, are the polls wrong? Are they under-sampling young voters who don’t have land lines?
Clinton has to get something like 65% of the vote to be mathematically viable. Obama getting 35% or more is technically a win but what if he actually won this contest? It could bury Clinton although she might not notice. But current conventional wisdom is that she’ll win this primary by a narrow margin but get put down like a rabid dog in Indiana or North Carolina.
So this one primary might not decide anything. To continue the playoff metaphor it’s like a game 6 with Obama up 3-2, he could bury it but might not. I hope he does, if primary fatigue has begun to set in with me you can imagine how the average voter must feel.
I don’t have any special plans for this primary but I plan to take Tuesday and Wednesday off from work for a variety of reasons.
