seeing as pennsylvania is a must-win for her to stay in the race, a 5-7 win is meaningless, symbolically and delegately. now, if obama wins by 5-7 points--that's a big win. after all, hillary shot guns in the backyard of her no hot-water, outdoor-shower childhood cottage in scranton.
times tribune: Mrs. Clinton will also arrive facing doubts about whether she'll wrack up the kind of dominant victory in Pennsylvania she needs to dent Mr. Obama's substantial lead in delegates and convince superdelegates she's more electable. The latest delegate count by the Associated Press has Mr. Obama ahead by 138 delegates.
In an appearance Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," Gov. Ed Rendell, Mrs. Clinton's top Pennsylvania backer, said a Clinton victory by four to seven percentage points would be "a huge and very significant victory" because Mr. Obama has so dramatically outspent Mrs. Clinton in television advertising here.
Mr. Rendell had earlier predicted a five to 10 point victory. That was when, he said, he didn't realize Mr. Obama would spend so lavishly.
Mr. Rendell said Mrs. Clinton's performance in the debate Wednesday dramatically improved her standing in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking poll "because Democrats across the nation saw her performance in that poll and were blown away."
"She showed leadership ability, command of the issues, good solutions, and those are the things I still think that could make this a big victory," Mr. Rendell said. "But, given that spending differential, it's not going to be easy."
