Clinton Building on Pennsylvania Lead

By Eric Pfeiffer | March 20, 2008 12:18 PM | | Comments (0)

Pollsters and news outlets are looking at how the Jeremiah Wright controversy has hurt Barack Obama, and helped Hillary Clinton, in Pennsylvania. Some blogs, like Talking Points Memo, are also picking up on a new poll showing Clinton with a 16 pont edge in the state.

But Pat Dollard says the Obama campaign plans to keep campaigning in Pennsylvania, even if the results have favored them so far. The logic being that if Obama can keep the final results relatively close, Clinton will not be able to put a dent in Obama's 100 delegate edge:

For now, however, the plan is to still compete heavily in Pennsylvania, according to an Obama advisor. In past contests, the more Obama has campaigned throughout a state, the more he narrows Clinton’s lead. But recent polling shows that the opposite has been the case in Pennsylvania, so far. Pennsylvania is also a closed primary, which negates Obama’s advantage with independents.

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