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Hillary Wins PA By 10 Points, More Than 200,000 Votes

By Jeralyn

Hillary has broken the 200,000 vote margin with 93% of the Pennsylvania vote in.

Her campaign raised more than $2,500,000. since the polls closed. (Via John King on CNN, who received the information from her campaign.)

Obama's Indiana party was slow, there were empty seats.

Obama got trounced in the rural counties and by blue collar Dems and Reagan/Casey Dems, by Catholics, women, older voters, religious voters and gun owners.[More...]

David Gergen on CNN says it's a major victory for Hillary. "It's symbolically important." The blue collar vote is sobering for Democrats. "It's not good news for Obama. As he was closing, not only did he stall, but he got hurt."

Consider Hillary also beat Obama by 10% in New Jersey and Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky look good for her.

The superdelegates are going to be doing some serious thinking about electability. Paticularly when they consider the popular vote. They can consider Florida and Michigan in the popular vote even if the DNC doesn't.

You can't disenfranchise MI and FL and expect to carry those states in November.

This race is far from over.

Update: Clinton got 57% of the Jewish vote. She got even more of the Catholic vote.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).