Final Spread From Pennsylvania: 8.6%
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, PennsylvaniaShe actually didn’t break the 10% threshold that was widely reported.
Official Vote Total
Clinton: 1,235,067 - 54.3%
Obama: 1,041,366 - 45.7%
Clinton popular pickup - 193,701
PA Pledged Delegates (via CBS)
Clintpn - 82
Obama - 69
Clinton delegate pickup - 13
Total Pledged Delegates
Obama - 1,482
Clinton - 1,328
Obama pledged delegate lead - 154
Total Delegates
Obama - 1,710
Clinton - 1,584
Obama total delegate lead - 126
And here’s a roundup of some of the stories about the win today…
With Clear Victory, She Has Rationale to Fight On - NY Times
Clinton Outduels Obama in Primary - NY Times
Why Clinton won Pennsylvania - Politico
Dems Fight On; Clinton Wins PA Primary - ABC News
Clinton on Obama: “Why Can”t He Close the Deal?” - CBS News
Clinton’s win in Pa. leaves Obama battered, party reeling - McClatchy
Obama Shifting Focus From Clinton to McCain - NY Times
I think that last one is telling. The Obama camp knows that Hillary’s triumph is mostly theatre due to the delegate math, and will be trying to treat it as such to force the party elders to start pressuring Hill to get out. We’ll see if this strategy works. My guess is it won’t.
Next stop - May 6th.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
I’m seeing a tremendous number of news stories putting the margin at 10% and saying that Clinton exceeded expectations, neither of which seems to be true. Actual votes aside, Clinton definitely won the news cycle.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
She won the news cycle because the news want this thing to drag on forever. They know she can’t win. Everyone who is paying attention knows she can’t win. UNLESS she knee caps his electability and gets the superdelegates to hand it to her. Which is… to me insane. It’s insane she would go down that road. The fact that she is going down that road in and of itself should disqualify her.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Will Penn actually make a difference for Hillary in the end?
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
So Pennsylvanians did their thing. Now the real fun starts. Fun, that is, if you make a living delivering speeches, watching speeches and coaching others who need to speak well to do well. That’s what I do. And it’s why this time in the political cycle is more fun for me than a weekend at the Vegas roulette wheel with unlimited cash. It’s chancey. It’s dramatic. It’s limitless.While people try to sort out whether Hillary won by 10%, 9% or 8.6%, I want to move on to something of which I’m 100% sure: Tone means everything from here on out.
Much research indicates that what one says is so far less important than how one looks and sounds when saying it. We’ve seen plenty of evidence of this so far. Both candidate are saying roughly the same thing when it comes to what matters: Health care, wars, economy. But how they say it is quite different. It’s all about tone. Obama’s hopeful tone was most effective early on. Clinton’s competent tone resonated later. Recently, both have displayed their p***sed off tone, and that hasn’t work too well for either.
What’s a candidate to do? Pundits today from the WSJ to NBC to Fox news say Obama needs to go back to hope, and then insert a tone of more competence. Hillary needs to go back to competence and insert a tone of more hope.
If both candidates follow this advice, both will have similar policies - articulated with a similar balance of tone and competence. Now THAT will make for a compelling choice, don’t you think?
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
He will do all that Ms Espinoza - and he will start to attack McCain and give Clinton cursory attention at best - as he should have been doing since WI was over. This is is still over - but it makes for great television, and the bottom feeders continue to feed the longer the process continues.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
best analysis i saw today was comparison of this election with ‘72. that year another generation was going to sweep new, progressive leadership into the white house, this time against dick nixon. amazing how the democratic party can shoot itself in the foot so well.