Pennsylvania Primary Results May Take A Week Or So
 Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Bah, it's a slooooooow news day.  Not too much going on.  The state of Pennsylvania is holding its primary election today.  Ballots are cast in a variety of ways in Pennsylvania and each county selects their own voting system.  It's a closed primary, meaning you must be a member of a Party to vote for that Party's candidate (whether it be Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, Green Party, Constitution Party, what-have-you).

Some political commentators and journalists have said that the PA primary may tip the nomination in favor of either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party - the AP has called Pennsylvania a "must-win" state for Clinton; but others say it isn't expected to clarify anything.

On the Republican side, John McCain was declared the "presumed" nominee for the GOP in March, but Ron Paul has been campaigning in the state in recent weeks and looks to gain delegates in PA, the state where he was born.

ConnieTalk.com contacted the Pennsylvania Department of State, who let us know that it will take up to seven days for provisional ballots to be validated and counted in PA's primary; but how much do you want to bet that the MSM will have final projections up before then?  In March, you voted, and 90% of you told ConnieTalk that the media shouldn't be dubbing winners before all of the votes are in for primaries.

UPDATE:  4/23/08 As you probably know, the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton the projected winner for the Democrats and John McCain the projected winner for the Republicans.  Hillary already gave her victory speech and Barack congratulated her.  We still say that results should not be announced until all of the votes are in - SHEESH!  Stay tuned for the complete results here in one week.

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