Hillary Clinton Wins the Pennsylvania Primary, but What Does it Mean?

 As I write this, Hillary Clinton is projected to win Pennsylvania, currently she has an 8% lead and it is projected to go up. This appears to be just what the doctor ordered for Hillary. But what does it mean?

 Hillary has no chance of catching Obama, she has almost no chance of winning the popular vote either. So what has this accomplished? I think it puts doubt in the voter’s minds in the upcoming primaries as to whether Obama can win the election. But even if this drives voters away from Obama, it is too little, too late. What this could do though is start to bring super delegates back to Clinton.

  All of this is nothing but speculation on my part but the one thing that I do know is that this ensures that Hillary Clinton is going to stay in this race for the long haul. These two candidates are now going to bloody each other up for the next nine primaries and after those are over the Democrats will still not have a nominee, it will be a brokered convention. All of this seems to fare well for the Republican nominee, but then I look at who the Republicans nominated and it makes me sick. A wasted opportunity. A chance gone by the wayside. A shame.

 I do find it interesting that ever since “bittergate” Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been trying to out-gun and out-God each other. Both candidates have tried to become more conservative on these two issues. Both candidates have been campaigning in Pennsylvania as if they were trying to replace Charlon Heston as president of the NRA. Suddenly both candidates are pro second amendment activists.

 It tells you how far left Obama must be when Hillary wins the church going, gun toting voters of Pennsylvania.

 The campaign is now destined to go on, the Democrat candidates will continue to hammer each other until the party is in disarray, and when a nominee is chosen the party will then try to come together as if everything is okay. But it won’t be okay, it will be far from okay. After a long bloody primary battle the Democrats should be ripe for the picking, but the Republicans field a weak candidate. John McCain will not be able to take advantage of what the Pennsylvania primary has provided, a chance to derail the party that is trying desperately to divide itself.

 So while this victory won’t provide Mrs. Clinton with any realistic gain in the delegate count it does keep her in the race. It gives her a reason to carry on. This victory really doesn’t help her gain on Barack Obama but the perception will be that Hillary has gained on Obama. Sometimes perception is more important than reality. Hillary can lay claim to victory in all the big states and swing states. She will now be able to use this as a rational to seduce the super delegates to vote for her and steal the nomination away from Barack Obama.