What results are you HOPING for in the PA primary?

[adoraz]

Not what you think will happen, but what you want to happen, or what margin you will be satisfied with. Obviously everyone wants their candidate to win by 100%, but lets be realistic. :)


For myself, anything under a 10% Clinton win would be great. A few percent over that would be okay... but much more than that and I won't be too happy.

What would satisfy you?

[YDogg]

1. an Obama win

[adoraz]

2. so if he loses by a few percent...

you won't be satisfied?

[YDogg]

11. nope

not entirely

[gokansas]

41. Obama wins. Hillary quits! And leaves us alone!

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. A convincing O win to put this shit to bed.

And get on with taking on the Republicants.

[Diamonique]

13. YES YES YES YES YES

I wanna end this mess right now!

[Boz]

34. 10.66% or less for clinton

16 delegate to her plus side which will be killed and nullified by NC and then further by superdelegates moving following PA

In an ideal world Obama wins, but he wont so he has to keep the spread between 7.5%(which I expect)and 10.66% which is my worst case number.

[SoonerPride]

3. Obama wins. Hillary quits. The end.

But I'll take a 7% loss.

[Barack_America]

43. Amen Brother.

Except that 7% loss bit. I won't accept that, considering it will mean that I didn't work hard enough.

I plan on working hard enough. ;)

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Obama breaking even with Hillary ending her run then and there. Or a win by ...

... by a few percentage points.

[joeybee12]

5. 20% Hilary win so Obama starts whining again...

...music to my ears.

Well, you asked.

[gateley]

6. I hate to sound like the Rodney King,

but I'm hopeful that if Clinton does decide to bow out, that her supporters will be okay with that and we can come together again.

I make myself retch sometimes, but that's what I'm hoping for.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Marking time til Obama can finally turn to beating McCain's sorry ass.

[TexasLady]

9. a juicy tie.

nah just kidding, Obama by about 25 percent...I can DREAM cant I?

[CakeGrrl]

10. I'd love for Obama to get an outright win no matter how narrow the margin,

but if he loses, I'll be OK with a net delegate gain no bigger than OH.

[TexanDem]

12. My hopefully realistic wish -- Obama +2 to 5%

[BklynChick]

14. I hope Obama wins by 3%,

[tularetom]

15. Any result that would end this debacle would satisfy me

[Raine]

16. Hillary winning 6% or less

would be a victory for Obama, that's what I hope for.

[ecdab]

17. I hope the good people of PA wake up on Tuesday and decide

it's time to start the GE against McCain by, for all intent and purpose, ending the primary season with a rip roaring and resounding victory for Obama.

I'll be very happy with any sort of victory for Obama. I'll be satisfied if he keeps it close. I predict (and I only have this silly glass table top on my desk to look at - as opposed to these crystal ball things that so many other folks have) Hillary wins by around 12 or 14 - which will not thrill me but still will not be enough for her to make the kind of upward movement she has to make at this point.

[AllentownJake]

18. Obama by one vote

Because than it would be over and I could party like an Ewok.

[Aloha Spirit]

25. Holy crap. Get out of my mind, you freaks!

You DU people read my mind, it's freakin me out.
I was just thinking today that the month of November is going to be a four week long Ewok party.

[AllentownJake]

40. I have the Ewok song

From the original Return of the Jedi. To bad her supporters don't where helmets. I'd make a kickass drum set out of them

[adoraz]

19. a lot of you are setting your expectations very high...

I respect your opinions, but I feel an Obama win is extremely unlikely, and if Clinton wins by less than 10% that NC 2 weeks later could pretty much end this.

[SoonerPride]

23. You asked for HOPES not EXPECTATIONS. Stop moving the goalposts.

I EXPECT Hillary to win by 18%.

[adoraz]

26. I know that, settle down. honestly....

I am just saying, it seems for most people only an Obama win would satisfy them and I don't really see why that is.

If people aren't going to be satisfied with a 3% Clinton win, there is no way I'm coming here during the primary.

I feel anything less than a 10% win for Clinton should satisfy Obama supporters, but I guess most people disagree with me.

[TheDoorbellRang]

35. That's where I'm at, expectation-wise Hillary 10% or less would be ok

That means she keeps going, of course, so in an ideal scenario they tie or Obama beats her by 1%. I really think she might drop out in that case.

[kmsarvis]

20. A 1% Obama victory would be funny as shit !!!

Realistically,a single digit loss would be acceptable.

[SoCalDem]

39. Unfortunately, barring a precision lightning bolt

Obama will continue to have his psycho stalker tailing him for a month longer...hurling insults at him as she scurries around looking for photo-ops and free airtime..

[PBS Poll-435]

21. 85-15 Hillary.

I will settle with her winning with 12-22, though.

[SoCalDem]

37. It's time for your injection

[PBS Poll-435]

38. I can't hope?

Without Thorazine?

[BlueIdaho]

22. Clinton by 8

IS a win for Obama - everyone knows that.

I'll take that.

[DesertFlower]

24. under 8%. nt

[polichick]

27. Philly and the burbs will put it over the top for Obama.

[IsItJustMe]

28. A six point spread either way should put one more big nail in her presidential hopes.

[LWolf]

29. A clinton win

keeping it close enough to help force a brokered convention.

[Sparkly]

31. Why, LWolf? nt

[LWolf]

46. Because the only possibility

that I see for a good candidate, and a candidate that can win in November, is for a brokered convention that gives us neither Clinton nor Obama, but a 3rd less polarizing candidate.

Since Obama is now "leading," that means that Clinton would have to win a few more to keep it close enough to bring about that brokered convention.

[Sparkly]

50. I've thought of that as well, but...

The rub is how that could happen without angering and disaffecting the supporters of Clinton and Obama. The feeling is they've worked for it, as have their volunteers. Could that be overcome?

[LWolf]

52. I think so, although it is an important consideration.

I don't think Obama supporters will all accept Clinton, and vice versa. That's part of the problem.

I think that, if Clinton and Obama stepped forward in the interest of uniting the party in November and endorsed the "compromise" candidate, that would help. In reality, there were only 2 primaries and 2 caucuses (discounting the mess with Michigan and Florida) before Clinton and Obama were the only two left standing. That's not exactly a majority of Democrats weighing in on the larger field.

I also think that the choice of nominee would make a difference. Gore, if he would accept it, would be the obvious choice, and an elegant way to bring the GWB era to a close. If not, then perhaps Edwards, who earned some delegates in this race.

[Sparkly]

53. I could go for that.

Gore, at least. If Edwards hadn't run and lost in the primaries, it might be different, but I don't see him carrying taking the mantel from two candidates who beat him.

[LWolf]

54. Gore is obviously the first and best choice.

I feel confident that the party would unify behind him. We've already nominated him, and elected him, once.

[ellisonz]

30. 56-44

OBAMA

[Aloha Spirit]

32. Obama 38% Edwards 30% Clinton 29%

[Dbdmjs1022]

33. Hope: Obama by greater than 5%. Realistic: Obama keeps it within 5%

[slinkerwink]

36. Clinton will win by 12. I'm hoping for Obama to come behind 8 pts or less.

[bigwillq]

42. 49.5 to 49.5

:wow:

[book_worm]

44. My hope would be a Obama win, by any margin. It would end the race then and there.

Obama can survive a PA loss; Hillary cannot.

[emilyg]

45. A big Clinton win.

[rox63]

47. I'd love to see an Obama win

But I'll be satisfied if he he loses by a margin of 5% or less.

[backscatter712]

48. A wooden stake through Hillary's heart.

followed by cutting off her head and stuffing her mouth with garlic.

The press has been making this a horse race, because on top of their obvious bias as to who they want to win, they'd be forced to cover the Iraq War and Bush's crimes if

[my3boyz]

49. I agree..anything under 10 I would be thrilled. If it is under 20 I could live with it. Anything

more than that I would be extremely concerned for Barack.

[BlooInBloo]

51. Same.