Today's Papers - Pennsylvania Matters

Throughout the state, newspapers provide coverage of last night's Texas and Ohio primaries. With Hillary Clinton's victory in both states, Pennsylvania's April 22 primary counts. Chris Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College, tells the Harrisburg Patriot-News that, "Just having that much time in the middle of a campaign that is so unbelievably dynamic with no other game in town for seven weeks - there's nothing like this in modern as well as historic politics." In the Allentown Morning Call, Josh Drobnyk writes that, "Ohio and Pennsylvania have more than a border in common. They share similar demographics and economies. So as the presidential campaigns lay out their strategies in Pennsylvania, they aren't likely to dismiss what voters thought in Ohio."

The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that "not since Jimmy Carter in 1976 have residents in the state had a real voice in a presidential primary." Both the Obama and Clinton campaigns have opened offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Clinton campaign plans to open offices in Scranton, Allentown, State College, Harrisburg, Erie and Johnstown by the end of the week.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes, "The delegate math made it unlikely, though not impossible, that Mrs. Clinton could overcome the Obama lead, even with a string of strong showings in Pennsylvania and other subsequent primaries. But by the same token -- as the Clinton campaign has pointed out repeatedly in recent weeks -- neither Democrat was in a position to capture the nomination on the strength of pledged delegates alone."