Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Is it the last post for Hillary?

Voting has just opened in the Pennsylvania Primary where the local paper reports

Turnout at the Pennsylvania polls is expected to shatter all previous records as voters cast their ballots in today's primary elections.


This could be the final swansong of Hillary Clinton who will be looking for a large winning margin to cconvince the super delegates that she is the best placed of the two to take on John Mccain

According to Bloomberg

After more than 40 Democratic primaries and caucuses, Obama, the Illinois senator, leads Clinton by more than 800,000 votes. Even if the New York senator wins by more than 20 percentage points tomorrow -- a landslide few experts expect -- she would still have a hard time catching him.


John McIntyre explains that this is Obama's fourth cahnce to kill off Hillary

Barack Obama has had three previous opportunities to knock Hillary Clinton out of the race. First, in New Hampshire in early January where all the polls pointed to an Obama win; second, on Super Tuesday in early February where a win in California (where the polls were tied) would have been enough to cripple the Clinton campaign; and then most recently in Ohio and Texas in early March, where a popular vote win in either state would have been enough to effectively knock Clinton out of the race.

But a word of caution for the Democrats.A candidate who has failed to take the primary in the State has never defeated the Republicans.James Forsyth points out

The Obama camp clearly doesn’t think it has much chance of pulling off an upset in the Pennsylvania primary, the candidate will be in Indiana when the results come in.


Meanwhile Hillary has thown all the stops out to convince the electorate that she will be the best candidate when it comes to Statesmanship,producing this as her final ad.

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