How Is A Primary Like A Team Rivalry?

Tuesday's primary matchup features a diverse mix of voters. And Pennsylvania is kind of a mini-America, both urban and suburban, blue-collar and professional, conservative and liberal, black, white and Hispanic, CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports.

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The Keystone State Primary: It's a regional contest with two teams that represent two different Pennsylvanias.

"What we have in Pennsylvania at the moment is a sort of East /West contest," said G. Terry Madonna, Director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College. "We joke about it in Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Eagles playing the Pittsburgh Steelers."

Pittsburg Steelers fans are typically Clinton voters. Many are Catholics and blue-collar workers from central and western Pennsylvania. They want someone to fight for health care, but are more culturally conservative.

Philadelphia Eagles fans tend to fly with Obama. They are more educated, affluent, and liberal voters who live in the Eastern part of the state, including Philadelphia, which is evenly split between black and white voters.

Many compare this battleground with Ohio, its sister swing state to the west, but because of some key differences, they're really more like cousins than siblings.

"There are more Catholics in Pennsylvania than Ohio. More union members in Pennsylvania than Ohio. More older voters in Pennsylvania than Ohio," Madonna said.

And more women … all factors that could move Clinton close to a big win.

But Obama's greater resources could keep the game close.

"I think his advertising budget has been three times that of Sen. Clinton which obviously has helped him enormously," said Barbara Ferman, a political science professor.

There also may be power in numbers. Many speculate a surge of new Democrats will help Obama.

"Since the campaign started, there has been slightly more than 300,000 Democrats registered in Pennsylvania.

The Keystone State is key in the general election, too. Consistently courted by the GOP, Pennsylvania is a state McCain hopes to change from blue to red. And it's not hard to understand why.

"Of the 10 closest states in 2004, for example Pennsylvania had the largest number of electoral votes," Madonna said.

[blackspirit3]

FLIP FLOP HILLARY????
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discussed actions that would warrant a nuclear response that would %u201Ctotally obliterate%u201D Iran. The New York Senator told ABC''s %u201CGood Morning America%u201D Tuesday and MSNBC''s %u201CCountdown With Keith Olbermann%u201D Monday that, if president, she would be willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran if they orchestrated a nuclear attack on Israel.

Clinton, who has tried to cast her rival as too inexperienced for the job of commander in chief, said of Obama''s stance on Pakistan: "I don''t believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons."

[blackspirit3]

40 YEARS OF CLINTON RAPING WOMEN

A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, said Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford University campus where the future President was a student.
In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, who was a law student at the college.
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse
Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton''s attorney general campaign, said he raped her in 1978;
From 1978-1980, Arkansas State troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.
Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have *** with him shortly after she won her state crown.
Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral ***.
Sandra Allen James, President Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation''s capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress.
Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993.

[jack3213]

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[jack3213]

I AM TRULLY AMAZED AT THE LEVEL OF THE NOT SO BRIGHT INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEM TO HAVE SUCH SHORT MEMORIES AND OR REFUSE TO LEARN AND FOCUS ON THE FACTS ABOUT SOMEONE BEFORE SUPPORTING/VOTING FOR THEM. I REALIZE THERE IS A SOLID 35% THAT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY- BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNSURE- IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DON''T THINK OF THIS AS A HIGHS SCHOOL NOMINATION-RALLY- BUT MORE OF A ROLE THAT SOMEONE WILL BE CHOSEN FOR THAT REUQIRE QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERAINCE/& CREDIBILITY. NEITHER DEMOCRAT HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD A COUNTRY AND HAS LIED MORE THAN BUSH IN A SHORTER AMOUNT OF TIME. WAKE UP ALREADY OR SHUT UP LATER, BECAUSE PEOPLE HATE TO BE TOLD '' I TOLD YOU SO''

[rowdytexan2]

Clear the road of wimps and let Hillary at it! lol


Go Hillary! Roh! Roh! Roh!

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[mrtutto]

Hillary Clinton evokes the memory of Harry Truman. Maybe she wants to start another war.
Maybe she should go back to the kitchen because she seems to be spending a lot of time there.
The kitchen sink strategy.... if you can''t stand the heat.... She reminds me of the schoolyard bully who always has two people protecting her while she plays tough. She had a chance to go after Osama Bin Laden, but she chose to go to war in Iraq. She looks to me like someone mentally unstable enough to drop an atom bomb.