By: E&P Staff The unthinkable just a few days ago now seems plausible: Barack Obama winning the delegate-rich New York primary on HIllary's Clinton home turf. At least that's what the New York City daily, The Sun, sugggests today in an article by Peter Kiefer.
Here is an excerpt. It's all posted at www.nysun.com
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It seemed next to impossible just a few days ago: the idea of Senator Obama competing against ? much less beating ? Senator Clinton on her home turf in next month's New York State Democratic primary. But in the wake of his victory in Iowa and polls showing him pulling ahead of Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire, site of today's primary, the idea of Mr. Obama winning New York has entered the realm of plausibility.
"I am worried," Mayor Koch, who backs Mrs. Clinton, said. "The whole question is whether the country is caught up in an Obama fever. I still believe the best will prevail and she is the best."
A state senator who is one of the few New York Democratic elected officials who supports Mr. Obama, Bill Perkins, said the calculus for New York delegates has changed. "Assuming all the polls bear out like they did in Iowa, then we are going to have a race," Mr. Perkins, who represents Harlem, said.
"Pre-Iowa, Hillary Clinton was considered the inevitable and I think obviously, now having lost Iowa and the polls showing the likelihood of a significant defeat in New Hampshire, that does not apply to her or to anyone else for that matter," he said.
A December 17 poll by Quinnipiac University showed Mrs. Clinton leading Mr. Obama by 55% to 17% among likely Democratic primary voters in New York. No new state polls have been released since last week's Iowa caucus.
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