Obama in PA Happy News Roundup

From the Reading Eagle:

Steve Elmarzouky got a surprise phone call as he waited in line Sunday at Reading High School to attend presidential candidate Barack Obama’s town hall meeting.

Obama was about to make an unscheduled stop at the Heidelberg Family Restaurant after leaving Lebanon.

Elmarzouky raced to his car and sped toward the restaurant he owns along Route 422 in Heidelberg Township.

On the way, he got a phone call from Obama.

Obama told him to slow down, that he would wait for Elmarzouky to arrive.

From Daily Kos (w/ videos):

Scranton is Hillary’s “third” home, outside of Arkansas and New York, it’s where her Grandfather is Buried.  The blue collar town of 72,000+ poured out Sunday night to see Caroline Kennedy, Bob Casey and Senator Barack Obama. 

Swampland pegs the crowd at 4,800, really quite a showing for a city widely suspected of potentially going 75%+ for Hillary…

From NBC 10 in Philadelphia:

A day before the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, it appears Hillary Rodham Clinton will fend off a late charge from Barack Obama, the latest SurveyUSA poll found.

The poll, the fifth conducted exclusively for NBC 10 and several other local television stations throughout the state, concluded that women will carry Clinton to victory, despite a surge for Obama in the southeast portion of the state.

According to the survey, Clinton will carry the symbolically important popular vote, but not by enough to gain material advantage in pledged delegates, according to the final SurveyUSA tracking poll for the primary.

The survey concluded that Clinton will finish with 50 percent, 6 percentage points ahead of Obama. The margin of sampling error is 3.8 percent.

Looking only at SurveyUSA numbers and ignoring the polls that have been released by 12 competing pollsters in Pennsylvania, Obama gained ground in a week when he was largely on defense and off-message. Last week, SurveyUSA had Clinton ahead by 14 points. Monday, in a poll conducted using the identical methodology, SurveyUSA found Clinton ahead by 6 points.

(More polling info here—not updated with this new SUSA result yet)

From Michael Moore:

I don’t get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn’t get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote—and yours—on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

Posted by Kevin K. on 04/21/08 at 08:52 AM • Permalink

Despite Moore’s endorsement, I still like Obama. Nice line about living in Michigan, btw. I get he considers it gauche to say “and Manhattan.”

"get” = “guess”

Yeah, I’m not the hugest Moore fan either, but I like the endorsement for one main reason: Like him or not, Sicko was an extremely effective documentary and it was about Hillary’s issue.  The fact that he didn’t endorse her says a lot.

Like most people who challenge corporate interests, Michael Moore has been demonized unfairly in the corporate media.

I’ve been a fan of his since TV Nation.  His honesty and willingness to upset the establishment are quite commendable.