Obama narrowing gap in Pa.
Thanks in large part to her Bosnia sniper gaffe and the endorsement of her opponent by Sen. Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton's lead over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania has shrunk to 5 points in one new poll.
A Rasmussen Poll out yesterday shows Clinton with 47 percent, Obama with 42 percent, and 11 percent undecided. Not all polls show the same thing, but Rasmussen had Hillary up by 10 points last week and 13 points the week before. Pennsylvania holds its primary on April 22.
Some in the public have offered up Casey as a possible running mate for Obama, which I have to admit I hadn't considered but which makes a certain amount of sense. Casey is beloved by traditional white Democrats and has strong credentials on the abortion issue that could help insulate Obama to a certain extent on that issue.
Gov. Ed Rendell is a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton, but I'm told that not everyone else in his administration or the Pennsylvania Democratic Party organization feels the same way. Rendell, who seems to get up every day and ask himself, "what more can I do to be considered a Democrat-in-Name-Only (DINO)?" this week proclaimed that Democrat-hating Fox News was the "fairest" of the TV news operations. This is make-your-head-explode stuff, almost as bad as Hillary cozying up to rightwing hatemonger Richard Mellon Scaife last week.
It was so over the top that Keith Olbermann of MSNBC gave Rendell his daily "Worst Person in the World" dunce cap.