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Is Hillary Helping McCain in Pennsylvania?

By Brian Faughnan

If Barack Obama was hoping to project the image of a unified party in the days before his coronation, this is a story he doesn’t need:

A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. The private gathering featured Carly Fiorina, Mr. McCain’s top economic adviser, and took place at the Dunmore home of political consultant Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of Mrs. Clinton’s family who has signed on as paid national director of Mr. McCain’s Citizens for McCain Coalition. The attendees included Tony Rodham, Mrs. Clinton’s youngest sibling, his wife, Megan, and their two children; attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane, who coordinated Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign in Northeast Pennsylvania during the primary election; and Virginia McGregor, sister of Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty.

So Senator Clinton’s name will be entered into nomination at the convention, Governor Rendell will be voting for her, and her brother and a Pennsylvania coordinator are meeting privately with one of McCain’s closest advisers (and a rumored vice presidential pick). Do you suppose that if Hillary really wanted to quiet doubts about her backing for Obama, she could have made it clear to Rendell and her brother? Polling shows Obama with a clear edge in Pennsylvania, but the state is hardly out of reach for McCain. He’s dramatically outspending Obama in the state, and the latest polling shows Obama’s support static while McCain is moving up. If McCain is able to steal Pennsylvania from the Democratic column, it makes it much harder for Obama to win an electoral vote majority.

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