This is EXCELLENT NEWS!!! FOR HILLARY!!!

The story is that "bittergate" has not been a benefit to Hillary, and has cost her 4 days of campaigning.

I think it's pretty obvious that Hillary's ad featuring "ordinary Pennsylvania residents" (from New Jersey) is making people bitter.

Owwww. when two of the most accurate pollsters in the whole cycle (SUSA and PPP) have such completely different results, it really makes my head hurt.

The only thing we can tell for sure form these numbers is that Bittergate is going to leave a bitter taste in Hillary's mouth.
I think Obama just proved he could handle any controversy in a general election.

The deparity in all these polls makes me think that either polls mean nothing or that there is much craziness in PA.

Since Bill Clinton is now over sixty, and by his own admission, subject to becoming tired and forgetful, I though that I would help him out by putting this helpful reminder in print for him:

The Boston Globe
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Clinton finds his surrogate family
Growing friendship with Bush clan pays political dividend to all

By Peter S. Canellos | April 12, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Born after his father's death, Bill Clinton has spent his life searching for connection. His need for approval was, arguably, the yearning that propelled him all the way to the White House.

Now it appears Clinton has found his surrogate family. He is part of a sprawling clan, legendary for its warmth and unity. It is a clan that is so accustomed to acquiring surrogate sons and daughters that adoption has become a part of its strength.

Clinton has become a member of the Bush clan.

Last week in Rome for the pope's funeral, the clan sat lined up in a pew: Laura, W., Dad, surrogate daughter Condoleezza, and Bill, all seeming more at ease than most families on Christmas Eve. Clinton may have looked a little out of place, like a Great Dane who thinks he belongs to a family of dachshunds, but his contented expression suggested he was exactly where he wanted to be.

Like many relationships in public life, the friendship between Bill Clinton and the Bush family is both genuine and opportunistic. At the highest levels of power, personal and political desires tend to merge: The person and the job become one.

Clinton's need to be accepted led him to speak movingly to all segments of society. Skeptics insisted that it was a ruse, intended to convince people he was someone he was not: a pure liberal to liberals, a moderate to moderates, a budget-balancing conservative to conservatives. And, politically, he was all of those things and none of them. But he was true to himself: He genuinely wanted to be respected by everyone.

Likewise, the two Bush presidents replayed their family roles on the national stage. George H. W. Bush was the genial patriarch and polite host, inviting celebrities from all walks of life to join him at the White House, at Kennebunkport, on his cigarette boat. If his friendliness seemed artificial at times, more a function of noblesse oblige than true empathy, it was all genuine to Bush: The good manners his mother taught him proved to be more deeply embedded than his politics.

George W. Bush, the family enforcer in his father's administration, relies more on loyalty than charm. He offers uncommon backing to his underlings: Bush recently draped a Presidential Medal of Freedom on the shoulders of a smiling George Tenet, the former CIA director whose overhyped intelligence briefings led the president astray. In return, Bush's underlings stay loyal to him: No presidential team has stayed as free of damaging leaks as the current one.

The with-us-or-against-us ethos carries down to the current president's supporters, a rock-solid base that lifted him to reelection in a difficult year.

Clinton's friendship with the Bushes connects with all their personal and political desires. The friendship began with Clinton and the elder Bush, two famously nice guys who happened to have been at odds in the 1992 election. Clinton's need to be forgiven for ousting the older man, and Bush's classy urge to let bygones be bygones, led them each to be very considerate of the other. Their friendship blossomed on their trip last winter to raise funds for Asian tsunami relief. They became so close that former president Bush suggested to the Houston Chronicle that ''maybe I'm the father he never had."

The current President Bush won over Clinton with demonstrations of his loyalty to the presidential club, praising his predecessor effusively while unveiling his White House portrait and helping dedicate Clinton's presidential library. Clinton repaid the debt by telling people how much he liked the president, even while many Democrats were trying to demonize him.

Now, as tends to happen in politics, the personal friendship is paying political dividends for all parties. President Bush's failure to express immediate concern for tsunami victims and his modest initial offer of aid could have been devastating to his image. But Clinton, who remains deeply popular around the world, stepped in to defend Bush and join the relief effort.

Since last year's election, Bush has made a concerted effort to woo European allies. Having Clinton in his pew at the pope's funeral in Rome did more to boost Bush's reputation overseas than a hundred bows to Jacques Chirac.

Clinton, who may be seeking to return to the White House as the president's spouse, probably senses that any viable Democrat must distance himself or herself from the Bush-hating left. What better way to demonstrate that distance than by embracing those very same Bushes?

The hug is sincere, but so is the ambition.

Peter S. Canellos is the Globe's Washington bureau chief. National Perspective is his weekly analysis of events in the capital and beyond.

These polls are BULLSHIT!!! Obama is elitist, sexist, unpatriotic, married to Michelle, flag burner, Hussein, inexperienced, Barry, elitist, stupid, lier, not his turn, won't ware flag pin, won't sing to flag, and NOT HIS TURRRRRRRNNNNN!!!!!!

Hillary has climbed the mountain. She is polished gold. God bless Hillary CLINTOOONNNNNN!!!!

As an Afro-American male, I have to ask the 12% of black Pennsylvanians that still support the Clintons:

What more do they have to do to show you that they could care less about you?

Lots of "caveats" today, Eric. On this poll AND on the Gallup showing him 13 point ahead.

Can anyone else hear the frustration that Obama is not only surviving through each "campaign ending scandal" but thriving?

O my.

Polls like this make Hillary go BALLISTIC

What is left in that sink of hers to throw at Obama?

We are approaching the REDZONE..the 48 hour weekend prior to the vote where Hillary has consistently thrown out some red herring to blast Obama and generally it is lies that he will not have time or media coverage to rebut or dispute.

Hopefully, Obama throws the nuclearradioactive ball this time FIRST so Hillary has to scramble to clean up.

Well, it's well within any margin of error so they're effectively tied, but I have no clue what this poll really means in the context of the race except that there are still a significant number of undecided voters out there still. And polls like this make keeping expectations at a realistic level much tougher for Obama supporters.

My hope is that this trend continues, and the bottom drops out from Hillary's campaign. That way we can all move on, lick our wounds, and turn our righteous anger where it belongs: preventing 4 more years of Bush.

Ain't it over yet.....can't he finish her off yet?
No it ain't and no he can't. She will win in Pa/Id/Wv/Ky/PR maybe a few more and seeya at the convention. BTW.....more shit will emerge about your guy and no one will want him as dog catcher. This is the parties fault, no one wanted to do the job of vetting. They wanted to force him down the throats of the nation. Like I said months ago.....vet him then or vet him now, they choose the wrong time. Too frickin bad. This is what the party is really thinking.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/miracle-philadelphia

And 5 endorsements today for our future president senator Obama, a pretty good day...

2 Super Delegates from North Carolina
1 Super Delegate from Indiana
and Bruce Springsteen and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PA