Clinton Has Already Lost in PennsylvaniaRandy Shawbyline‚ Apr. 22‚ 2008Mercifully, tonight marks the end of the seemingly interminable six weeks between Barack Obama’s landslide victory in Mississippi and the Pennsylvania primary. I wrote on March 18 that this six-week lag would force political writers to come up with “tantalizing story lines” about the race, a prediction---highlighted by the recent ABC news “debate”-- that proved an understatement. After failing to alter the race’s momentum by throwing the “kitchen sink” at Obama in Ohio and Texas, Hillary Clinton has spent six weeks casting everything from fry pans to microwaves to Sub-Zero refrigerators at Obama in a desperate effort to prove him “unelectable.” And she has failed. As a result, Clinton has already lost in Pennsylvania, regardless of tonight’s outcome. Clinton either stays in the race to suffer a projected double-digit defeat in North Carolina on May 6, or uses her Pennsylvania victory to go out a winner. |