OK, SO HILLARY'S GOT GAME. We knew that already. And we knew that she was supposed to win the Pennsylvania presidential primary by almost exactly the percentage that the returns show as of a minute before midnight on election day. I am eager to see how the pundits deconstruct the outcome at the polls because you know it won't be enough that Hillary Clinton won as predicted over Barack Obama. It will be how -- or rather who -- she won. Angry white men, for instance, evidently voted for Hillary in larger numbers than expected, even though she criticized Barack Obama for claiming that such a species of "bitter" Pennsylvania voter existed.

(Which goes back to my original observation that Obama didn't lose any votes by the uproar over those comments because he wasn't going to get their votes in the first place. In fact pollsters on election day said the "bitter" backlash was mentioned by exactly zero percent of people in exit polls across Pennsylvania.)

The big story, of course, is Larry Farnese blindsidng Johnny Doc in the First District State Senate race to replace Vince Fumo. I can't wait to see who claims credit for that piece of Philadelphia electoral alchemy. For the last two weeks it seemed like the entire Pennsylvania primary was brought to you by Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electoral Workers who sponored so many get-out-the-vote public service ads on TV that you almost forgot that Dougherty was, in fact, the leader of that union who happened to be seeking elective office.

Until more reasonable and prudent election analysis is forthcoming, I am going to insist that Dougherty's campaign was doomed by the bitter dago turnout in South Philadelphia.

Oh, by the way. While the Democratic race is being placed under the microscope -- why can't Barack finish this off; did Hillary's win only postpone the inevitable? -- let us not lose sight of the fact that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain still lost 12 percent of the Pennsylvania GOP vote to Mike Huckabee, a candidate who isn't even running Between that and the "bitter" Ron Paul voters, McCain lost close to 30 percent of the votes in an unopposed race.