Knight-Ridder never lets the facts get in the way of its reporting:
"The last time a Pa. primary mattered"
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/The_last_time_a_Pa_primary_mattered.htmlFunny but in '92, Bill Clinton didn't have enough delegates to claim the nomination until California voted in June. Jerry Brown was still alive at the time of the PA primary in '92.
The hotter contest was in '84 when Gary Hart valiantly tried to prevent the foreseeable Mondale GE disaster. Pennsylvania certainly mattered then:
http://www.fandm.edu/x4518.xmlWhy can't the Knight-Ridder group simply tell the truth and report the news?
Twenty years later, Knight-Ridder still refuses to write anything positive about Gary Hart, even when they need to rewrite history to avoid writing the obvious.
Twenty four years after Hart battled Mondale in Pennsylvania, some lessons could be drawn from the '84 PA primary: Pennsylvania is still blue collar, but its unions are certainly less than they were in '84. Hillary's Wal-Mart is now the state's largest employer.
Don't wait for an honest discussion about it from Knight-Ridder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_RidderThey can only do hatchet jobs on good Dem's.