OBAMA CAMPAIGN ALREADY SPINNING PA LOSS AS “VICTORY”

[Politico.com]

“I’m not predicting a win. I’m predicting it’s going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect,” Obama told the Pittsburgh radio station KDKA Tuesday.

An Obama aide said that even if Clinton wins by 15 or 20 percentage points, she can’t change the race’s underlying dynamic.

Hillary Clinton spokesperson Howard Wolfson sees it differently:

“Sen. Obama has outspent us 3-to-1 in Pennsylvania,” he said in an earlier interview. “If he can’t win a big swing state with that advantage, just what will it take?”

OUR TAKE: The Obama campaign is already spinning a 15 to 20 point Clinton victory in Pennsylvania tomorrow as irrelevant to the nomination process. Which means that Team Obama’s internal polling sees those kind of numbers as a real possibility. We agree. And in view of the $2.2 million per week Obama spent on PA TV ads, the hundreds of thousands of new voters Obama registered in PA, his 6 day campaign tour of the state, and over 150 PA campaign appearances, a double digit Clinton victory in the Keystone state will mean the beginning of the end of Barack Obama in 2008.