The news says that Hillary Clinton was the big winner in yesterday’s Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. I don’t see it quite that way. But isn’t it interesting!

As we all know, the real winner in all of this is our man, John McCain! Actually, the REAL winners are the American people. We here at McCain Blogs are eating out popcorn and watching the action. (That is coming from US, not from the McCain campaign - just want to be clear about that! We don’t have to be as politically correct as the official campaign has to be) We are not gloating, we are just interested.

Hillary took at 10 point lead for a victory in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary last night. Her win looked like this:

Hillary Clinton: 1,258,245 54.69% 66 Delegates
Barack Obama: 1,042,297 45.31% 57 Delegates

The democrats do not have a winner-take-all system. Their delegates are allocated on a percentage basis. As with so many of the methods they use in their election process and in the way they run government, it is convoluted, heavily slanted to give their ‘authorities’ as much power as possible and confusing. So even with her win last night, Hillary only picked up a 9 delegate lead over Obama. That’s enough to give her a boost and a reason to stay in the fight, its not enough to give her anything like a real win. The overall delegate count is still pretty much neck-n-neck.

After the Pennsylvania Primary the Democratic delegate count totals are (via Right Pundit):

The Delegate totals are:

Pledged Delegates 1479 - 1328 Obama + 151 Popular Vote 49.2 - 47.5 Obama +1.7
Popular Vote (w/FL) 48.3 - 47.6 Obama +0.7

This is obviously going to the convention. I have visions of Harold Dean sitting in his den with his head in his little hands just not knowing WHAT to do. I imagine that the city council in Denver is preparing for the worst. They are probably having disaster drills even as I type this. The democrats seem determined to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.

Meanwhile, my friends, lets sit back and enjoy the show ….