Pennsylvania's Day of Decision Arrives

After six long weeks of waiting, the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary is finally here. Citizens have had to withstand seemingly endless coverage, hype, horse manure, out and out lies, smears, treachery, and blather in the Keystone State and nationally to get to this date at last. The filth and smarminess of the Clinton campaign have been in high gear for a long time and hopefully Tuesday will be their final and last hurrah. The media coverage of the campaign in recent weeks has been entirely vapid and inane for the most part, focusing on items of zero importance and significance. Clinton will probably edge Obama in the primary with about a 3 to 5 percentage points victory, but in the key aspect of delegates, the contest will largely be a wash. There are 158 delegates that will be allocated on a proportional basis depending on the outcome of the vote, and an additional 30 superdelegates will also be making a choice on whom to support and endorse, although that will not entirely happen immediately. Polls open across Pennsylvania at 7am EDT and close at 8pm EDT, so results should start to become known before 9pm EDT. The current estimate of delegates by CNN shows Obama with 1,648 to 1,504 for Clinton. The nomination takes 2,025 delegates, so Obama should be within 275 delegates when all is said and done in PA including the superdelegates whom will commit in the next week. Next up after Pennsylvania are the North Carolina and Indiana primaries in two weeks on Tuesday 6 May with 115 and 72 regular delegates at stake for each, respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Democratic_primary,_2008

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/PA.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008

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