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...Despite the hard work of dedicated volunteers like Mosby, Pennsylvania's April 22 closed primary - in which only registered Democrats may vote - is a problem for Obama, who has done better in states where Republicans and Independents can just show up at polls and register on-site. In an attempt to compensate, the Obama campaign for weeks has been running a quiet but massive effort in Pennsylvania to register tens of thousands of new Democrats, many of them traditional Independents and Republicans but also new voters. To the exclusion of virtually all else, his 150 campaign staffers and more than...
...Although the final numbers are not yet in, so far registration has swelled 84,801 since the 2006 elections - that's 11% of the 790,000 people who voted in the 2004 Democratic primary. Last week alone 50,347 people became Democratic voters, according to Pennsylvania's State Department, bringing the state party's total to over four million for the first time ever. Since the beginning of the year, 86,711 Republicans and Independents have switched affiliations, and in just the last three weeks 34,104 new voters registered as Democrats. Significantly, 64% of those who changed parties were...
...revote in Florida and Michigan would almost certainly have strengthened that argument. If it happens, "I have no doubt at the end, when Puerto Rico votes [in June], Senator Clinton would have the most popular votes, and that could have a huge impact on the superdelegates," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter who has helped raise more than $8 million in pledges of private funds to finance new contests. And if Clinton could pull ahead in the popular vote, he added, it would undercut "the whole raison d'etre of the Obama argument: How do you turn your...
...estimated $4 billion cost of the law over the next 10 years, which comes at a time when state budgets are already stressed to the breaking point. So far, the feds have provided only $380 million in grants to offset those costs. "How dare they not pay for it?" Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell told TIME. "The cost is 12 days of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...options and finding a way for the Soviets to save face and back away, thereby getting the U.S. what it wanted while preventing a nuclear holocaust. Clinton has not shown she understands that the presidency demands leadership above all, not simply a pugnacious personality. Mary C. Helf, Flourtown, Pennsylvania...