2008-04-22

When a win isn't a win

Our good pal Hillary Clinton "won" Pennsylvania.  By a win, I mean that she has more popular vote in the state than Barack Obama.  Too bad for her the delegate math in PA isn't that simple, so it is likely she will only gain a marginal number of them.

Hillary now has a few immediate problems:
1. Superdelegates: Her margin of victory wasn't decisive.  Right now she is up 54% to 46%; this 8% is nowhere close to the 20%+ that she was polling just several weeks ago.  She is claiming victory in a state where she lost a huge amount of ground in a short amount of time.

2. Money: Simply put, she's close to broke.  Her campaign website is re-directing straight to her fundraising page and they are asking for donations of $5.  That's not much money, no matter how many people visit her website tonight.  

3. Delegate math: she hasn't made up the grounds that she's lost.  Her campaign keeps moving the goalpost.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

She's got no hope in winning the nomination.