Well, now that the presidential candidates have all gone to their next campaign state there’s a feeling in Philadelphia like after the Fourth of July, you know , the feeling the excitement and fun is all gone and now we have to get back to the grind of daily living. I must say that it was very exciting while it lasted. Candidates arrived at diners with police escorts sirens blaring, you had one of them tossing down shots at a campaign stop and the other grabbing a bite at a local eatery…mind you he only took a couple of bites for the camera and was off again to the next stop on the campaign trail. I think someone grabbed his mostly uneaten meal and its now for sale on eBay. We Philadelphians are VERY enterprising you know. I’m surprised someone didn’t grab Hillary’s shot glass and stick that on eBay. All in all I would rather have a shot and a glass of beer with Hillary than a couple of bites of breakfast with Obama..but so would most of us working class folk I think.

Anyway, Hillary won, congrats to her, they’ve gone on and here we are in Philly still wondering what our pols are going to do about crime and the rest of Philly’s woes. Lets see what happens.

Controlled excitement is building inside of Clinton’s inner circle as closely guarded internal polling shows the former first lady with an 11-point lead in Pennsylvania!

Clinton is polling near to nearly 2 to 1 over Obama in many regions of the state, a top insider explained to the DRUDGE REPORT.

A strong coalition of middle-class and religious voters has all but secured a Clinton victory Tuesday, with headline-making margins, the campaign believes.

“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of how much,” a senior campaign source said Monday morning.

When pressed if the dramatic internal polling numbers could somehow be flawed in a state as demographically complex as Pennsylvania, and with new voter registration surging to unseen levels, the campaign insider held firm.

“Senator Obama would be wise not to unpack his bags quite yet.”

With less than 24 hours to go until the beginning of the end of primary season voting, Obama has handedly captured Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but has failed to dominate suburban sprawl, the campaign’s polling reveals.

An 11-point victory in Pennsylvania for Clinton would expand on margins scored in Ohio.

Clinton will quickly move to feverishly focus on Indiana starting Tuesday night, hoping to somehow convince superdelegates that she not only has superior stamina but has crucial swing state appeal.

Barack Obama’s surge in Pennsylvania appears to have stopped after the controversy over his remarks about bitter small town voters clinging to guns and religion, according to a new poll.

But the Quinnipiac University survey, the first taken since coverage of the remarks, also doesn’t show immediate evidence that Obama has been wounded.

The poll showed Hillary Clinton with a 50 percent to 44 percent lead over Obama, the same as a week earlier over Obama, who had been narrowing her lead from single digits.

Obama reinforced his overwhelming support among black voters, while Clinton held a 20-percentage-point edge among white voters, the poll found.

The survey also showed more of the bitterness that many Democrats are worrying about: 26 percent of Clinton supporters said they would vote for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in November if Obama is the Democratic nominee, while 19 percent of Obama’s backers said they would support McCain if Clinton is the nominee.

The poll of 2,103 likely voters in the April 22 Democratic primary was conducted by telephone from Wednesday through Sunday. The news of Obama’s comments at a fund-raiser in San Francisco broke on Friday night. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.