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Clinton defeated Obama by nearly ten percentage points, an
amount that political strategists said was necessary for her
to remain a viable contender for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton acknowledged that she needed the Pennsylvania win.
"The future of this campaign is in your hands,"
Clinton told supporters at a Philadelphia victory rally Tuesday
night. "Some people counted me out and said to drop out,
but the American people don't quit and they deserve a president
who doesn't quit either. Because of you, the tide is turning."
Who the voters chose
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Senator Barack Obama was favored by black and affluent
Pennsylvania voters. |
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During the campaign, Clinton
worked to show her working-class connections and highlight her
Pennsylvania family roots. Exit polls showed she won more of
the blue-collar workers, women and white men. She also won the
majority of voters who named the economy as their top concern.
Her passionate speech, in which she promised to help economically
devastated communities and create more jobs, ended by co-opting
Obama's "Yes, we can" slogan into a more determined
"Yes, we will."
Obama, meanwhile, was favored by black voters, the affluent
and those who recently switched to the Democratic Party--
about one in 10 Pennsylvania voters, according to the surveys
conducted by The Associated Press and TV news networks.
Obama watched the Pennsylvania results from Indiana and in
a speech late Tuesday said his campaign was energized and
ready to focus on general election issues ("Two wars,
an economy in recession and a planet in peril"). He also
took a crack at both Clinton and GOP nominee Sen. John McCain.
"Real change doesn't begin in the halls of Washington
but on the streets of America," Obama said. "It
doesn't happen from the top-down, but from the bottom-up."
Campaign spending
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Hillary Clinton tried to translate her win into a new
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Obama continues to raise
and spend more cash than Clinton. He spent $11.2 million on
television ads in Pennsylvania, more than any other place. That
compared with $4.8 million for Clinton.
With the Democratic race projected to last through June,
Obama's campaign appears to be more fiscally sound. He is
spending 75 cents for every dollar he is taking in while Clinton
is spending $1.10, The New York Times reported.
After heaping attention on Pennsylvania, the Democrats will
begin competing for the 187 delegates at play in Indiana's
and North Carolina's May 6 primaries, but Guam holds its caucuses
for 11 delegates three days before that. The other remaining
Democratic primaries include Oregon, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico.
Clinton won at least 52 Pennsylvania delegates to the party's
national convention, with 60 still to be awarded. Obama won
at least 46, according to an initial analysis of election
returns by the AP.
Competing views of the results
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Despite her win in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton still
trails Barack Obama by thousands of votes in the nationwide
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The Clinton campaign used
the victory to suggest their candidate can win big states with
rural and blue-collar populations such as Pennsylvania and Ohio
- which are necessary to win the general election against the
Republicans.
The Obama campaign meanwhile argues that he is ahead in both
the delegate and popular vote (the raw number of people who
voted), and that he can attract independents and Republicans
who have been locked out of many Democratic primaries.
With Indiana shaping up to be the next big battleground,
both campaigns used favorite son John Mellencamp's music in
their Tuesday speeches. Mellencamp, who used to support former
Sen. John Edwards, appeared with Obama Tuesday night, but
has appearances with Clinton scheduled as well.
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