What Pennsylvania means for Clinton and Obama

Hillary Clinton needs a win in the Pennsylvania primary to preserve her "slim chance of survival," said John Dickerson in Slate. And her staff is confident she'll win big. It might seem like

What happened

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made their closing arguments to Pennsylvania voters in a flurry of speeches and a barrage of TV ads, capping nearly two months of campaigning in the state ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary. Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor and Osama bin Laden in a final commercial arguing that only she was prepared to be commander-in-chief. Obama responded by reminding that Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq war, and asking who voters wanted to answer "that 3 a.m. phone call: The person who got Iraq wrong or the person who got Iraq right?” (The Washington Post, free registration)

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