Hey Pennsylvania relatives, please end this

Oh hell, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m trying to avoid excessive thought about today’s Pennsylvania primary. I’d really like this race to wrap up soon, not because I’m an Barack Obama supporter (I am, but that’s so cliche) but because this campaign has become something of a self-satire. In other words, paid satirists couldn’t invent a scenario more ridiculous than reality.

Normally, I’d be on the phone to my relatives in Pennsylvania, but most of them are Republicans (at least last we talked about it). My grandparents and I were going through the family history last summer. Everything my Pennsylvania family wrote in the 1860s and ’70s reads like a political ad for Ulysses S. Grant (they loved Grant … a lot). By and large the family has kept voting “R” ever since.

Obama’s back in command of the national polls, but Hillary Clinton has a lot of built-in advantages in Pennsylvania and will probably win. My prediction is Clinton by six. I should be doing the political hack thing and lowering expectations but if she wins by more than six I’ll be depressed anyway.

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    I’m finding it hard to wait out the results. Nothing would make me happier than an upset, but mainly I’m he keeps a loss in single digits. I’m sick of listening to Pat Robertson and Joe Scarborough question why he can’t close the deal. My gosh, he’s running against the king and queen of the Democratic party! That’s a big fight.

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