Did Hillary Clinton attack unfairly?
Amid early exit poll numbers for the Pennsylvania primary that bode well for Hillary Clinton -- more women voted than men in the Democratic contest; nearly half of all the party's voters were from families that earned less than $50,000 last year -- here's a number that could prove hurtful for her:
Fully 67% said she attacked Barack Obama unfairly.
On the flip side, 49% thought Obama unfairly attacked Clinton.
Even if she wins the Keystone State, having two-thirds of the voters believe she played dirty pool is a problem to her long-range White House hopes. And it is a finding that is of a piece with other recent poll results showing that her overall standing with voters has suffered as she battled to derail Obama.
The exit polls will be updated later to take into account those who cast ballots in the late afternoon and early evening.
-- Don Frederick
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Why is it that any article you read, hear or see, the Obamama's are blatting? It's too hard, too rough, not nice, mean!
Sorry, if I were a man, black or white, to let a little old white lady make me whine would be on the bottom of my reaction list.
He's a loser, he can't win. He may cry his way to the big times, but he's a loser.
Posted by: Pansycritter | April 22, 2008 at 06:43 PM