Top Ten Reasons Obama Can't Win

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The ubiquitous Lanny Davis, a Hillary Clinton supporter, has put together a top ten list of "undisputed facts" showing Barack Obama's weakness against John McCain:

1. Hillary Clinton won by 10%, 220,000 votes, despite after most of the polls in the last several weeks on RealClearPolitics, including its RCP all-poll average, showed her ahead by single digits and dropping. The exit polls showed her winning by +5. (It's easy to forget that she won if you listen to the Obama spinners last night and today. Believe it or not, Pennsylvania's Rep. Murphy, a freshman congressman who supported Barack Obama, actually said last night on Larry King that Senator Obama did so well in losing to Senator Clinton yesterday that he has a "wind at his back." I am not kidding.

2. Senator Obama tried hard to win the state, campaigned intensely throughout the state for most of the last six weeks -- and was trying to win, not just lose a narrow margin.

3. He spent $11 million on media -- about three times more than Senator Clinton.

4. Most of his ads were personal negative attack ads against Senator Clinton, meaning attacks on her character and integrity.

5. There were no personal attack ads run by Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania.

The other five reasons are available here.

Filed Under: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 President

Tagged: Barack Obama, BarackObama, delegates, election, Hillary Clinton, HillaryClinton, Lanny Davis, LannyDavis, money trail, MoneyTrail, nomination, polls, popular vote, PopularVote, president 2008, President2008, primaries

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