Though it was completely ignored by the press and probably not widely known to the public, it is a fact that there was also a Republican primary in Pennsylvania last Tuesday.

Take a look at the results (Wikipedia, but there are tons of sources for this):

100% of precincts reporting

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
John McCain	587,210	73%	0
Ron Paul	128,483	16%	0
Mike Huckabee	91,430	11%	0
Total	807,123	100%	74

Please note that Raul Paul, still running, and Mike Huckabee, candidacy withdrawn, together captured 27% of the *Republican* voters' votes in this election. In fact, their combined vote total of 219,913 votes is GREATER than the 215,000 votes that separated Clinton and Obama in this state's Democratic primary, and that presents some interesting political theories:

Extreme Republican conservatives may be very unhappy with McCain.

Extreme Republican liberals may be expressing an "anyone but McCain" opinion.

There may be a strong anti-war element among Pennsylvania Republicans.

McCain voters may not have turned out for the primary because the nomination is a fact but non-McCain voters may have wanted their voice heard for any number of reasons.

However, and most important to me, the shrill, relentless media reporting on television "news" shows, for example, would have one thinking that there was no Republican primary that day. The NY Times front page did not even mention the Republicans. Go ahead, take a look here. See anything about the Republican primary? Me neither.

The whole media kerfuffle on Wednesday was another red herring about how Democratic voters would defect to McCain if the Democrats nominated Obama and/or how Clinton had or had not won by a wide enough margin to justify staying in the race that was "tearing the Democratic party to shreds."

Yeah, right. Like a race for the presidential nomination is supposed to be, or historically ever has been, a polite game of croquet. I love that we have a good fight going on. For once, the Democrats have two candidates (though, oh, how I wish it was still more) who are really strong and able to hang in there, maybe all the way to a floor fight at the Convention. We haven't seen one of those is a really long time. 1968  maybe?

Let's keep things straight here. McCain is GW Bush with a credible military record. That's all. There are plenty of people who vote and have brains. The media CANNOT tell us what to think unless we allow it. Right now, they are choosing our candidates, not us. They are deciding what to focus on.

Don't let it happen again. Who do you want in the white house? Why? Is that what you have spent some time looking into? Are you taking the word of ANY other person or have you done some of your own research from independent sources?

Just checking.