Clinton's Empty Pennsylvania Victory  042308 hillary2 web
Clinton's Empty Pennsylvania VictoryForget Pennsylvania—the
cruel joke for the last six weeks was that it mattered at all.
Hillary Clinton’s win in Pennsylvania is worth a two-week stay
of political execution for the former First Lady—and nothing
more. In victory, she can justifiably proceed to Indiana, which
will vote on May 6, and try to cobble together enough new cash
to keep her million-dollar-a-day machine churning until then (a
task not made any easier by her 10-point victory tonight).
Should she win Indiana—a much iffier proposition than
Pennsylvania ever was—then, once again, she’ll have license to
press on, to West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon and the final
contests on June 3. Should she lose Indiana in two weeks, the
pressure on her to withdraw—or at the very least to suspend—her
candidacy will be immediate, enormous and intimate, courtesy of
some of her most stalwart backers.  But even if she wins
Indiana, wins West Virginia, wins Kentucky a