Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Your Morning News 4.23.08
Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, Death Penalty, Food Crisis, hillary clinton, Iraq, Pennsylvania, Your Morning News
After 6 weeks of campaigning, Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary last night by roughly 10 percentage points. Anyone who ever hoped that this primary might end soon (me) or ever (you) was proven sadly mistaken. Clinton won by increasing turnout among her core constituencies: poor whites, old whites, and catholic (whites). Just over 2 million people voted, which is more than 3 times the turnout of the most recent Pennsylvania presidential primary.
So what is next? First off, we never again have to hear Chris Matthews and Ed Rendell talk about how great Pennsylvania is. The next round of primaries is May 6th – so get out your Indiana and North Carolina guidebooks and start looking up interesting facts to throw around. Did you know that “historic Parke County [Indiana] has 32 covered bridges and is the Covered Bridge Capital of the world?” But do the bridges want to change politics as usual? Do they believe in the audacity Hope? I hate these states already.
To my surprise, there was news outside Pennsylvania, so Iraq, the food crisis, and the Supreme Court after the jump. Don’t worry if you skip it though, no one at the office will talk about anything bu the primary.