If Obama squeaks a win in PA, will Clinton thank her volunteers and congratulate Obama?

She hasn't done so, anywhere she's lost.

This is extremely bad form...

Why aren't people leaving her camp in DROVES?

(this applies to PA well)

I'm in no way saying that all of her supporters fit into these two categories, but in PA (and other places) she's cleaning up in the "old and/or politically ignorant" category.

People fear change...even when their present reality is not working for them. The less-informed voters trend toward a candidate that's perceived as more experienced and less of a change. Older voters trend toward older candidates.

I know some will take offense to these generalizations, but I present them as gross generalizations...and I don't think I'm off the mark. It's not meant to be offensive, it's meant to provide a logical counterpoint to the idea that Clinton supporters are "hicks".

EDIT: Nothing in the world especially wrong with being a hick - half my family is from the hickiest of all PA hickdom - a suburb of Connellesville (funny joke). They really ARE just like the Beverly Hillbillies.

No, hickdom isn't per se the problem. The racism is.

when he said "Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between."

Yeah, the Archie Bunker factor is very high in that state. There are tons of people in that state whose political thinking stops at the thought "I ain't votin' for a n****r!"

I live in the west 'burbs of Cleveland.

We've always commented that southern Ohio thinks that the Mason-Dixon line runs through through Columbus ans occasionally referred to the region down there as "West Pennsyltucky".

I understand what you mean about "hicks", but I think the issue is actually them not being informed.

If gun issues were a person's "single-issue voter" issue, they'd never support Clinton's stand on the AWB. Hell, I'm not a hick and I think her stand on the AWB is atrocious.

Not sure who would win that one.

EDIT: Ah, who am I kidding? The gay candidate would trounce the black candidate in hickdom.

No, I don't believe Hillary is a lesbian, and no, even if she were, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Though Barack Obama's far too classy to exploit such sleaze.

I'm curious how it would affect the votes of the Archie Bunkers though...

I'll bet that if Hillary somehow became the nominee, that meme would be dusted off just in time for November...

My grandfather was possibly the most seemingly racist family member I've ever known. It was always "nigger" this and "nigger" that...but I never actually knew a black person that he didn't get along with. His explanation was, of course, that they weren't really "niggers". To him, a "nigger" was the bogeyman that doesn't really exist, but he let it color his entire life.

As outwardly racist as he was, I really don't know how he would have voted (had he been a Dem). He was older, so probably for Clinton, but I don't believe it would have been because Obama's black.

On a completely unrelated topic, my grandfather could swear like nobody else I've ever met. Occasionally, established curses were no longer worthy of him, so he'd blurt out one of his own. "Your asshole sucks buttermilk" is possibly my favorite of these. It makes absolutely no sense, but conveys the appropriate message. He could be a mean bastard, but he could also be incredibly generous.

And you know it.
Thanks for blowing one of your three threads on this!

Do you have any info that states that she has?

(on edit) Texas doesn't count. She lost Texas but claimed a win.

Obama won the delegates. He also won everywhere in the state except Vegas.

to the demise of her political career.

maybe... when people get the MESSAGE that she can't win... they'll put an end to it.

Maybe in PA, more probably in Indiana.

You can bet the SD's know it may cost us the General Election... they won't sit on the fence much longer...

Obama could have enough for the nomination with a flood of SD's and wins in NC and IN.

it COULD happen

Then even Florida and Michigan will be rendered inconsequential and even Clinton, will be forced to throw in the towel.

So, my hope is for momentum from his presumptive Victory, in these coming votes... will nudge the SDs and give us time to focus on the General

But the Sandman will come out and sweep her off the stage before she is finished

and I'll have to dig it out of my ammo crates full of CDs

She never wants to acknowledge publicly that might, just might, not be the nominee. That would be a sign of weakness.

So, I'm going to say she'd thank her volunteers and issue a congratulation (finally) and a concession. I mean, she's not so completely oblivious (surely?) that she can't anticipate the reaction in the party if she were just to repeat her sore loser act again.

I don't agree with that... but it has some foundation considering her conduct.

Seriously, stop this. Odds are around 90-10 on a Hillary win.

What we want is for her to win by something like 53-47...the delegate advantage she'll get will be a wash then and her "firewall" states will be all dried up.

'nuff said.

Its rather sad, IMO.

I just don't "get" it

This is a manifestation of some form of Social Pathology, doncha think?

WTF? Did she play any High School sports?

This is just ugly... indicates some primary, missing, human element.