James Forsyth 8:01pm
Hillary Clinton’s ability to raise ten million dollars online in the 24 hours after her win in Pennsylvania is testament both to how the internet is transforming political fund-raising and how committed her hardcore supporters remain. (I still expect, though, that Obama will continue to comfortably out raise her.) Indeed, for Hillary the good news just seems to keep coming at the moment with Rev Wright choosing to do several media events, reviving the controversy over his relationship with Obama again.
Having said this, it is Obama who remains the overwhelming favourite to win the nomination. But for the sake of his general election chances he needs to finish this and fast because the longer the process goes on the more his political vulnerabilities, which I detail in this week’s magazine, are being exposed.
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James Forsyth 4:53pm
The New York Times editorial board lambasts Hillary Clinton, who it had previously endorsed, today. 
“The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.” But this seems to rather miss the point that it did work for Hillary Clinton. Yes, the gap closed but she still won by a solid margin and comes out of this contest it better shape than she went into it.
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James Forsyth 12:09pm
With 99 percent of the vote in, Hillary Clinton has a double-digit lead according to CNN. If you had offered the Hillary camp this on Tuesday morning, I suspect they would have taken it. But this result should not cause them to push the panic button at Obama HQ. Indeed, the biggest danger to them from this result is that they do.
This, though, is just what they are planning to do it seems. The Washington Post reports that: “In the two weeks leading up to the...
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James Forsyth 4:55am
With 96 percent of the vote in, Hillary is leading Obama 55 to 45 guaranteeing that the race goes on. I'm crashing on a magazine piece but will have more in a bit. My initial take is that Hillary has beaten the spread and given herself just the sniff of a chance.
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James Forsyth 12:28pm
The Obama camp clearly doesn’t think it has much chance of pulling off an upset in the Pennsylvania primary, the candidate will be in Indiana when the results come in. But with everyone expecting a Clinton victory, the key question is how much she wins by. Here’s Americano’s guide to how to interpret Hillary’s winning margin.
Four points or less: If Hillary only squeaks home in a state that she has family ties to and which is demographically suited to her, then it will be seen as a sign that...
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