Clinton takes Pennsylvania primary
Clinton leads by 10 percent, but Obama swept 66 percent of the youth vote.
Ariel Edwards-Levy
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: News
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Sen. Hillary Clinton was leading Sen. Barack Obama 55 percent to 45 percent in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night.
The results of the Pennsylvania primary are crucial to the future of Clinton's campaign, said Daria Roithmayr, a professor in the USC Gould School of Law who has worked as a strategist and research specialist on several congressional campaigns.
"If she wins by seven points or less, she has to rapidly wrap things up, because it demonstrates [Obama's] a pretty solid frontrunner," Roithmayr said.
Conversely, if Clinton wins by a double-digit margin, she will be able to make a strong case for superdelegates that she can win states Obama can't, Roithmayr said.
"I don't think she goes with a whole lot of gusto, momentum or enthusiasm," she said.
At USC, students arrive on campus from across the country, many choose to register to vote at USC rather than in their hometowns, said California Public Interest Research Group's New Voters Project Coordinator Shena Popat, a sophomore majoring in health promotions and disease prevention and economics.
"[Where students chose to register] seemed pretty split," she said. "But a lot of students choose to register here because it's more convenient."
Jen Kim, a CalPIRG organizer at UCLA and USC, said the organization encouraged students to register on campus.
"We definitely encourage students to register at their campus address, because it's more likely they'll vote if they can just roll out of bed instead of driving home or sending an absentee ballot," she said.
USC's student voice is also stronger if students vote on campus, she said
Some students have remained involved in the primary process, said Charlie Carnow, a sophomore majoring in public policy, management and planning and political director for the USC College Democrats.
"It's been pretty quiet, but a lot of students are definitely still involved," he said, citing attendance at delegate selection meetings for both Democratic candidates April 13, and "get out the vote" efforts aimed at calling voters in Pennsylvania and other upcoming states.
Students and young voters have played a huge role in the 2008 election, Roithmayr said.
"When you look at the breakdown of who the newly registered Democrats are, a high proportion of them are young people," she said.
She attributed much of the enthusiasm to Obama, who led in Pennsylvania by 66 percent among voters ages 18 to 24, according to a CNN exit poll.
"Nobody can remember the last time college students were excited about a politician," she said.
The results of the Pennsylvania primary are crucial to the future of Clinton's campaign, said Daria Roithmayr, a professor in the USC Gould School of Law who has worked as a strategist and research specialist on several congressional campaigns.
"If she wins by seven points or less, she has to rapidly wrap things up, because it demonstrates [Obama's] a pretty solid frontrunner," Roithmayr said.
Conversely, if Clinton wins by a double-digit margin, she will be able to make a strong case for superdelegates that she can win states Obama can't, Roithmayr said.
"I don't think she goes with a whole lot of gusto, momentum or enthusiasm," she said.
At USC, students arrive on campus from across the country, many choose to register to vote at USC rather than in their hometowns, said California Public Interest Research Group's New Voters Project Coordinator Shena Popat, a sophomore majoring in health promotions and disease prevention and economics.
"[Where students chose to register] seemed pretty split," she said. "But a lot of students choose to register here because it's more convenient."
Jen Kim, a CalPIRG organizer at UCLA and USC, said the organization encouraged students to register on campus.
"We definitely encourage students to register at their campus address, because it's more likely they'll vote if they can just roll out of bed instead of driving home or sending an absentee ballot," she said.
USC's student voice is also stronger if students vote on campus, she said
Some students have remained involved in the primary process, said Charlie Carnow, a sophomore majoring in public policy, management and planning and political director for the USC College Democrats.
"It's been pretty quiet, but a lot of students are definitely still involved," he said, citing attendance at delegate selection meetings for both Democratic candidates April 13, and "get out the vote" efforts aimed at calling voters in Pennsylvania and other upcoming states.
Students and young voters have played a huge role in the 2008 election, Roithmayr said.
"When you look at the breakdown of who the newly registered Democrats are, a high proportion of them are young people," she said.
She attributed much of the enthusiasm to Obama, who led in Pennsylvania by 66 percent among voters ages 18 to 24, according to a CNN exit poll.
"Nobody can remember the last time college students were excited about a politician," she said.
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posted 4/23/08 @ 10:00 AM PST
And the constipation builds for the JPF's and their quest for the POTUS........look out when they let loose.
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