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Smith, sticking with the campaign's official line, said that if Clinton could keep the margin within 15 percentage points - she currently trails Obama by 12 percent in an average of polls - she'd have won a victory.

One of those double-digit loss wins. I get them all the time when I gamble online. I'm a winner! Yay!

@wheelie: So Obama actually won Pennsylvania?

New Clinton supporter is a potent symbol

Mike Easley - he is strong, and virile, like bull.

Open the doors and see all the sheeple. Mike says vote Hills, baaaaa!

Obama should pick Senator Jom Webb for Veep. That would put Virginia in play, help with the Reagan Democrat problem and provide an earthy counterpoint to his perceived ethereality.

Godless Liberal: Yeah, that's how it works when you go by the Ralphie Wiggum rule book.

[www.domestic-church.com]
That's his church! Found the plans, if you want them.

Go to hell Carolina, go to hell! (Sorry, natural reflex)

I don't know who this Easley guy is, but Barack's got the triangle in the bag. If you know what I mean.

@RonMwangaguhunga:
... also because he'll follow you into the jungle and strangle you with his bare hands if you don't vote for him.

@Botswana Meat... True dat, Webb is a Jacksonian Democrat with what can only be properly construed as "rib-busting ox-strength."

Sometimes I wonder if this election is punishment for not believing in God. And then I remember that I don't believe in God.

Yes, in Mike's words Hillary "makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy". Like they say, you just can't make this stuff up. With friends like this -- [www.thesmokinggun.com]
N.C. Governor: Hillary's No "Pansy" - April 29, 2008

And Travis Childers said nothing.

@FloraWay:
It's punishment for actually believing in the American voter.

That's how we solve the current housing crisis! Everyone moves into homes made out of popsicle sticks! We're saved! Yeah!

Correction: he lives in a church made of popsicle sticks.

what's with these suckers? who would throw their lot in with hillary by now? is he being blackmailed? does he hate john cougar mellencamp that much?

@Godless Liberal: Actually, I thought that so long as Clinton won by less than 10%, Obama would be considered the 'winner' in Pennsylvania. And Clinton wound up winning by about 9%. And everyone says she 'trounced' Obama, scored a clear victory... Go figure.

Burns: Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the "Spruce Moose," and it will carry two hundred passengers from New York's Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in seventeen minutes!

Smithers: That's quite a nice model, sir.

Burns: Model?

Hey, we live in a Popsicle Stick House, and it's not that bad. We only worry when the wind blows. Oh, and we don't like wildfires.

@Godless Liberal: Yes, he won by not losing so badly. It's not the battles, it's the war.

Nice of the guber of N.C. to endorse the loser. Or perhaps he's just as bad at math as the rest.

...I cant wait to hear Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough SPIN a 13% loss for Clinton into locomotive MOMENTUM for candidacy!

@magneticfields: I thought I had dreamed that part about Hillary needing a win of over 10%. Yeah, go figure. And at one point it was conventional wisdom on the tv that they were going to split NC and IN and then Hillary would have to quit cause she'd be well and truly fucked delegate-wise. Now, it seems like if Barry doesn't win them both she's going to be crowned president in a bar in Indiana on May 7th. My inclination is to say fuck those motherfuckers and take a nap until Christmastime.

@confusionanddelay: *Nobody* can do math anymore, it seems.

Didn't guru Mark Penn say that endorsements don't matter?

@LittlePig: In this case, Linda Daves said nothing.

@confusionanddelay: Please.

Hillary won't quit until Denver, when the assembled masses rise up to tar and feather her cellulitic ass. All the makings for a great memory during the McCain Administration.

@Cape Clod: Easley is going to put a house in every garage, and a chicken-lips in the White House.

@UnifiedStringCheeseTheory: Not to mention saving the economy.
Or at least the frozen confection industry's portion of the economy. That's a lot of Popsicle sticks!

Not to worry, y'all. Easley is the single most boring and uninspiring politician to be elected in North Carolina in modern history. He didn't even bother to attend the 2004 Democratic National Convention, demonstrating his total uselessness to anyone who cared about beating Bush.

As my friend from Asheville says: "If Easley was any more middle of the road, he'd have a white stripe painted on him."

In other words, no-one here gives a shit what he says or does.

Why does North Carolina have a virtual treasure trove of electoral votes?

Another jewel for Obamas hope chest!