Hello Everyone:

John King of CNN is a very credible and objective reporter in my opinion. He is also very good when he reports about polls.

Here is the CNN transcript from Tuesday, April 22 where John King answered Wolf Blitzer and broke down in detail the map to show how Hillary won in Pennsylvania calling it "stunning:"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/22/acd.02.html

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES

Clinton Wins Pennsylvania Primary

Aired April 22, 2008 - 2300 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN CO-ANCHER: "We projected Hillary Clinton the winner, with 84 percent of the precincts now reporting, she's got a 10-point lead; 55 percent for Hillary Clinton, 45 percent for Barack Obama. A lot of the pundits subjected she needed a double digit victory in Pennsylvania to show the superdelegates she's more electable.

Right now with 85 percent, she's got that 10 percent advantage. We'll see if it holds up with the 15 percent remaining that has not yet been counted comes in; 1,041,000 for Hillary Clinton, 850,000 or so for Barack Obama. It's a pretty impressive 10-point win with 85 percent of the precincts now in.

If you look at the counties in the state of Pennsylvania, the light blue are counties where she's ahead right now. The dark blue are counties where Barack Obama is ahead right now. You see in Philadelphia he's ahead. But pretty much in the rest of the state, she is doing so much better than Barack Obama. Let's analyze that with John King. Exactly how she managed to achieve this -- I must say -- rather impressive win, especially given the fact the last several days of this campaign she was heavily outspent by Barack Obama in terms of TV commercials and other advertising.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: When you go county by county, Wolf, especially as we get up, you mentioned we're getting more of the vote now, we're up to 85 percent. It is stunning what you see the divide in this state of Pennsylvania that will be the topic, the topic of discussion in Democratic Party circles and you can bet in the McCain campaign tonight as they look at this numbers.

Let's start down here where Obama did well. In Philadelphia -- remember at the beginning of the night, we said their dream was come out of here with an 80,000, a 90,000 vote margin. They needed at least that to have any chance to compete statewide.

Look at this. Look at this. He is winning by 130,000 votes. That's a huge margin in Philadelphia. Even more than they thought they could get. He did usually well with African-Americans obviously.

But let's shrink this down a little bit. What else did we say at the beginning of the night was critical? The suburban counties. He is winning, at the moment, in Delaware County but just barely. He is winning over here in Chester County, but just barely.

Now, look what's happening here. In Bucks County, Senator Clinton is winning; 64 percent - 36 percent with about half of the vote in. In Montgomery County, Senator Clinton again carrying the day. Why? If you look right in these areas of these counties, closer in to Philadelphia, they are white, blue collar working middle class. The houses are closer together. Many of them if you travel those neighborhoods could use a paint job. They are not the old farms turned into affluent suburbs that you see out in this area.

She's winning with blue collar voters and, Wolf, this pattern continues across the state. A problem for Barack Obama; put simply, he did not win the white vote. Did not make significant inroads with the white vote in Pennsylvania.

Let's look at Scranton, Senator Clinton, 74 percent to 26 percent. Some will say well, she has roots in Scranton. Well, then let's keep moving down the map, 75 percent to 25 percent. Let's jump down to Allentown, 74 percent to 26 percent. Reading, here 58 percent, a little better up to 42 percent.

Let's shrink the map down and move out west. Another blue collar county; Erie Pennsylvania, about as blue-collar lunch-bucket, white Catholic as you can get - 63 to 37 percent. All down, many of these are very tiny counties. They are tiny counties but 63-37.

Out in white blue collar rural Pennsylvania, Senator Clinton just thumped him; 75 percent, 70-30 down there, Washington county just outside of Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh itself, where you have a changing economy, more health care driven, high tech driven, 10 percent of the population, Obama did do better. He lost 55 percent, 45 percent where you have young professionals and some African- American voters, he did better.

But when you get out into these white rural counties, 79-21; 72- 28. If you look across the breadth of the state, small African- American population here. Out here, you'll say, well, he did win in the center, but there are no people; 11,000 people for Barack Obama; very small counties where he is winning. There are some schools out in these areas.

You look at the geographical expanse -- he did better than they thought they needed to do in Philadelphia powered by the African- American vote. That is a big plus for Barack Obama. He not only gets high percentages, he turns out the vote.

But across the rest of the state, Hillary Clinton's argument will be he cannot win the so-called Casey Democrats, they call them here, in the state of Pennsylvania, Reagan Democrats will call them elsewhere. They're culturally conservative, blue collar Democrats. Many of them own guns, many of them are Catholics who can be swayed, were swayed by people like Ronald Reagan if you want to go back into '80 when Ronald Reagan won this state in '84. Ronald Reagan, of course, was winning everywhere.

This is the year Democrats will focus on now. The last time a Republican won Pennsylvania was George H.W. Bush in 1988. His problem with the white working class vote and with older whites in Pennsylvania is something that will be talked about in Democratic Party circles all week long..."

This analysis speaks for itself and in my opinion it makes a very strong case for Hillary's electability over Obama with the Reagan Democrats who will be up for grabs in the general election!

Jack Cafferty, a pro-Obama apologist at CNN, tried to explain this away with a common explanation of "when this is finally over... there will be one Democrat running against John McCain. And the referendum then becomes do you want more of what you've had for the last eight years or do you want something else." John King in response to this openly disagreed with him and explained exactly what is wrong with Jack Cafferty's faulty reasoning:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/24/sitroom.03.html

THE SITUATION ROOM

Syria Nuclear Stunner; McCain Criticizes Bush Administration; Democrats Eye Indiana & North Carolina

Aired April 24, 2008 - 18:00 ET

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: "Look, the thing that I think we kind of lose sight of in this, trying to parse this Democratic primary, is when this is finally over -- and God forbid it will be soon, we hope -- there will be one Democrat running against John McCain. And the referendum then becomes do you want more of what you've had for the last eight years or do you want something else.

So I don't think that this discussion about can this one attract the blue collar this, the lower income thats. Those people are either going to vote for another Republican or whoever the Democrat is. And so I think a lot of this conversation is just stuff we use to fill time.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: But the longer it goes on, John -- and you speak to these guys all the time -- the more the big shots of the party are concerned.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I disagree with my friend Jack on this one, although it's good to know if we call him at 3:00 in the morning, he'll be there to take the phone call.

(LAUGHTER)

J. KING: I want Jack Cafferty answering that call at three in the morning.

(LAUGHTER)

J. KING: Look, Wolf, I disagree with him on this one because presidential politics, especially in last 16 years or so, is a game of very small margins. Bill Clinton won narrowly. He never cracked 50 percent. George Bush won narrowly twice. He just barely cracked 50 percent when he beat John Kerry. It is a game of very small margins.

And if a number of white, working class Democrats in Pennsylvania who are inclined to vote Democrat switch or stay home, or if a percentage of African-Americans feel burned at the end of this process, feel cheated at the end of this process and decide in the end to stay home, that can shift a state like Pennsylvania, a state like Ohio, another one or two states out there.

Remember how George W. Bush became president.

CAFFERTY: Yes, he stole it.

J. KING: Al Gore couldn't win his home state of Tennessee.

(LAUGHTER)

J. KING: He couldn't win his home state of Tennessee and he lost West Virginia, which had voted Democratic way back in the days of coal's boom.

So it doesn't take much to change the electoral map..."

Please forward this information on so that more Democratic primary voters and superdelegates will understand the significance of Hillary's huge primary victory in Pennsylvania and so that they will also understand John King's answer to the main objection that Jack Cafferty and other Obama apologists in the media are bringing up!

Mitch Dworkin

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