Well, I did my part I voted yesterday. While the state fell to Clinton, Obama still picked up almost as many delegates and is still running some 126 ahead. My suspicions remain that a significant number of the 160,000 PA Republicans who switched to Democrat this year did so to help keep Clinton in the race so the internal fighting can continue , and potentially help her win the nomination so they can go vote for McCain in the fall. It's a simple, but in its way brilliant strategy, as the Clinton supporters' reflex is to deny it, putting forth an argument where they confuse those newly signed up to the voter rolls with the Republicans in Democrats' clothing. The Dems fight among themselves and become gradually more partisan. At the moment it's all mostly unpleasant, but it's far from over.
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Ye gods! It's April 18th?! No special significance to the date, at least not that comes to mind. It's simply that I haven't posted anything here since March 13th. Well, at least my taxes were filed a bit before the deadline. I managed to do one thing right. Some ups, several downs, and another month plus ripped from my calendar. I really need to be more careful about such things. My calendars aren't as inexhaustible as I would like to believe. Not that I needed a reminder on that front, but on Wednesday night a member of my usual lunchtime work quartet lost his father to protracted illness; I'm expecting that the next time I see him will be at the funeral, probably sometime next week. (Details will likely be coming through sometime today.) Thanks are overdue to Tammy & Darren for both a kung-fu fighting singing card and a fine, bright red shirt with Alex Ross' dynamic reinterpretation of the "Captain America Lives Again!" cover for Avengers #4