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Hillary Wins By Double Digits
BITCHES!!!!!
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Comments (17)
She gains 10-15 delegates and 200,000 votes
Still behind over 150 delegates and 600,000+ votes.
She has now pass her last state that could give her any chance of winning.
Stupid fuck.
The only pleasure i get out of this result is that my state of NC gets to slam another nail in her god forsaken coffin.
April 22, 2008 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's not dead yet.
April 22, 2008 11:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
If only the super delegates will just do that already.
April 23, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I see you're still hanging out with fools, Ben. 10 points after spending as much money as he spent is a disaster. But the echo chamber will count delegates and reassure themselves, right up until they hear he's accepted the VP slot on the ticket.
April 23, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
He forced her into debt, while he still has $40 million cash on hand. I wouldn't call that a disaster.
Besides, any excuse to post a Monty Python clip is a good excuse.
April 23, 2008 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Haha.
Dream on.
Hillary, the "hometown girl", with the name recognition, the Rendell and Nutter machines, a popular ex-president campaigning 24/7 for her, lets her margin slip from 25% to 10% to a two-year junior senator.
Don't sound too good from where I'm sitting...
April 23, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
And Hillary losing 25 points after starting out with a 35 point lead is ... GOOD NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
April 23, 2008 12:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lol. Her campaign kind of reminds me of the Black Knight.
April 23, 2008 12:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the black knight. Of course, if you also like Star Trek, you'll love this.
April 23, 2008 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I certainly hope that all the HRC supporters who talk of misogyny tell the original blogger that his/her post is sexist.
April 23, 2008 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do not be stupid Booby Glad.. if you enter a race against someone who has a 20 - 30 point lead, do you not pull out all the stops to cut back on that lead?
Hillary started PENN with an amazing lead. Obama needed to outspend her to cut that lead and he did it most successfully.
It is Obama who predicted a lost of 10 points or less for himself. He told that to his people just after the last primary. Maybe you don't remember, conveniently of course.
Obama lost nothing tonight, Hillary gained nothing. What are you screaming about. Actually, you need to get online and pour some money into her campaign because she is broke beyond measure. Go and spend some money with Hillary and quit being cheap.
April 23, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
MSNBC has apportioned 140 Pennsylvania delegates: 75 to Clinton and 65 to Obama, with 18 not yet settled.
Say she gets 10 and he gets 8.
Now he needs 137 of 409 to lock up pledged delegates: 33%
She needs 291: 71%
Say he loses Guam, Indiana and North Carolina by 48%/52%. Then he'll need only 45 of 217: 21%.
Say he wins those three by 52%/48%. Then he'll need 37 of 217: 17%.
Sure, she can still win. And if I work hard enough, I can start next year for Kentucky's Lady Wildcats.
April 23, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, with 98% of the vote now in, it's only "double digits" if you round up. :)
Yes, I'm being picky, but she won by 9.6%, and that number has actually been dropping just a tad as the last few votes trickle in, so it might still go below 9.5%, even (making 9% a more accurate approximation than 10%). So far, CNN is giving her +6 delegates, but that'll probably increase slightly since they've only assigned about half of the total delegates for PA so far.
April 23, 2008 12:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Methinks Sisyphus shot its trollish wad a tad too soon to reckon with the reality of that math, Ben.
April 23, 2008 12:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
With 99% reporting, we're back down to a 9% lead. (To be exact, 9.47%, so it could still easily go the other way.)
As I mentioned elsewhere, 9% is the figure being cited by RJ in the comic strip Over the Hedge.
April 23, 2008 12:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
9.39% and dropping…
I'm pretty sure that the final answer will, in fact, be 9% if you choose to round to the nearest integer.
No double digit victory here.
April 23, 2008 1:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ahem. At 1:00 am CST, it's 8.6%, gloaters. With 100 more districts left to count.
Pitiful.
April 23, 2008 2:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
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