PA – Obama Wins The Keystone State??
April 4, 2008
We’re making this a Black Races piece because, to this day, Pennsylvania has never elected an African American statewide. Interesting – even Massachussetts was able to pull it off.
Philadelphia Daily News political columnist John Baer writes a cogent piece on how Sen. Barack Obama could win the PA primary on April 22nd. Baer seems to think the signs for an upset are in order. Hear Baer tell it, and it’s plausible. Don’t know. We do know that, for some reason, even though the state has – for some time – been written off as a Clinton win, her poll numbers are falling fast in that state. We are still of the opinion that she’ll win PA – the question is by how much. If she wins by a slim margin, it doesn’t look good for her in a state that everyone thought she’d win easily.
So, what’s going on? Maybe Pennsylvanians are hearing that they are too old, too White, too bigoted, too old school political machine and too blue collar (translated: poor White trash), and it’s beginning to get to them. Suddenly, this classic bastion of Northern pride is being painted at some redneck, hick state, and folks aren’t feeling it. Maybe they’re a bit offended by that notion – Pennsylvanians are a proud, hard-working bunch. And maybe they aren’t feeling Sen. Hillary Clinton’s recent “mis-speak” on her 1996 Bosnia trip. We don’t know. Something’s up.
