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Hillary Wins Penn But Obama Still Leads

08:41 H | Topics: US Presidential Race 2008

So this morning I woke up and realized it wasn't a dream. Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania Democratic primary by about 10 points with 99% of the precincts reporting.
The BBC is giving Hillary a 9 point lead, taking away that double digit victory.
This means that she gets the majority of Dem delegates from that state but not enough to beat out Obama's delegate lead or his popular vote lead.

According to CNN's latest count, Obama leads in the delegate count -- 1,694 to 1,556.

This means that this seemingly never ending race goes on, onto the May 6 contests in North Carolina and Indiana.

According to CNN's analysis (I haven't checked all the sites yet but I will and report on any issues):

Obama drew more than 90 percent of the vote among Pennsylvania's black voters, who are heavily concentrated around Philadelphia.
African-Americans made up about 14 percent of Tuesday's vote.
But whites made up about 80 percent -- and voted 60-40 for Clinton. Her supporters turned out heavily in Pittsburgh and the counties of western Pennsylvania, and she was racking up similarly lopsided margins in the state's industrial northeast, the exit polls found.
Obama also scored big with new Democrats in Pennsylvania.
One out of every seven Democratic party voters was not registered as a Democrat at the beginning of the year, and 60 percent of them cast their ballot for Obama, according to the exit polls.
Clinton fared better with voters who made up their mind in the last week, the exit polls showed.
Fifty-eight percent of those voters said they chose the New York senator. That includes voters who made up their mind in the aftermath of last week's heated Democratic debate.
Clinton also got the support of older voters, with 61 percent of those age 65 or older backing her, according to the polls.

I haven't seen an analysis of the Latino vote in the state (yet).
CNN en Espanol last night seemed to be indicating that the Latino vote in Pennsylvania was negligible.

Via / CNN and BBC

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