Clinton Looks Forward After Pa. Victory

N.Y. Senator Gets Crucial Victory In Keystone State; Race Moves On To Ind., N.C.

(CBS/AP)  Exuding fresh confidence after her double-digit Pennsylvania primary win, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention Wednesday to contests in Indiana and North Carolina and pressed her case that she can still win the Democratic presidential nomination despite the odds against her.

"We worked so hard in Pennsylvania against some pretty tough odds, and to have a 10 percent win under the circumstances was just an amazing experience for me and for all of the people who worked so hard to make that happen," Clinton told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Wednesday morning.

In a round of morning television interviews, Clinton argued that her feisty act of political survival, defeating Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, confirms her contention that she would be the stronger challenger against Republican John McCain because she has shown she can win in big, swing states.

"At the end of the day, people have to decide who they think would be not only the best president, which is the most important question, but who would be the better candidate against Senator McCain. And I think the coalition that I've put together, as demonstrated once again last night, is a very strong base for us to beat Senator McCain," Clinton told NBC's "Today."

The New York senator also said she wants to schedule new debates before the May 6 contests in North Carolina, where the flush-with-money Obama is favored; and Indiana, where the two are close.

With nearly all of the votes counted, the former first lady led Obama 55 percent to 45 percent. CBS News estimates that Clinton won 82 delegates in the Keystone State while Obama won 73, with 3 delegates still unallocated. Obama now has an overall lead of 130 delegates.

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Pennsylvania Results

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Clinton said told Harry Smith that the campaign had raised $3 million on the internet since her victory was declared last night.

"Some counted me out and said to drop out," the former first lady told supporters cheering her triumph in a state where she was outspent by more than two-to-one. "But the American people don't quit. And they deserve a president who doesn't quit, either."

"Because of you, the tide is turning." (Watch Clinton Video)

Her victory, while comfortable, set up another critical test in two weeks time in Indiana. North Carolina votes the same day, and Obama already is the clear favorite in a Southern state with a large black population.

"Now it's up to you Indiana," Obama said at a rally of his own in Evansville after Pennsylvania denied him a victory that might have made the nomination his. (Watch Obama video)

Obama criticized John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, by name, saying he offers more of the same policies advocated by President Bush. He took aim at Clinton without mentioning her by name. "We can calculate and poll-test our positions and tell everyone exactly what they want to hear," he said. "Or we can be the party that doesn't just focus on how to win, but why we should."

Clinton scored her victory by winning the votes of blue-collar workers, women and white men in an election where the economy was the dominant concern.

She won despite being outspent heavily by her rival in a six-week campaign that allowed time for intense courtship of the voters.

"Hillary Clinton did what she needed to do in order to continue her campaign into North Carolina and Indiana two weeks from now, perhaps through the end of the primary process in June and potentially all the way to the Democratic convention in August," said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. "She almost certainly muted any calls for her to exit the race." (Click here to read Ververs' complete analysis).

The win gave Clinton a strong record in the big states as she attempts to persuade convention superdelegates to look past Obama's delegate advantage and his lead in the popular vote in picking a nominee. She had previously won primaries in Texas, California, Ohio and her home state of New York, while Obama won his home state of Illinois.

At the same time, even some of her aides conceded she is facing another likely must-win state in Indiana in two weeks time, particularly with Obama favored to carry North Carolina on the same day.

CBS News exit polls show that most Pennsylvania Democrats made up their minds a long time ago, while only 24 percent decided within the last week.

But voters who made late decisions broke to Clinton, with those deciding in the last week supporting the New York senator 58 percent to 42 percent. (See all exit poll data.)

New Democratic voters, who either switched from another party or registered as a Democrat for the first time, strongly backed Obama at a rate of 62 percent to 38 percent.

Women made up 59 percent of Pennsylvania Democratic voters, and they voted for Clinton over Obama 57 percent to 43 percent. Obama won a majority of men (53 percent).

Clinton won the support of 62 percent of white voters, while Obama was the overwhelming choice of black voters (92 percent). Clinton won the crucial demographic of white men, garnering 56 percent of their vote.

[blkpresident]

Hillary-Steinem ''08?

America can do better than this. Wonder who these broads would tap as their Secretary of Defense, someone like Jane Fonda? We are at war, so North Carolina voters do your country a favor and send lil'' missy home to her kitchen stove where she belongs.

[blackspirit3]

JACK FIND ME 1 MILLION WHITE WOMEN WHO WOULD SUPPORT A BLACK WOMEN FOR PRESIDENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WHITE WOMEN WOULD NOT PAY ONE BIT OF ATTENTION TO A BLACK WOMEN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. AND THE POLLS WOULD NEVER ASK THE QUESTION, BECAUSE WHITE WOMEN ARE SUPPORTING HILLARY AS PATRIOTS AND BLACK FOLKS ARE SUPPORTING OBAMA BECAUSE WE FOOLS. THATS THE WAY THE MEDIA WANTS TO PRESENT THE BLACK VOTE. THE FACT IS

HAD OBAMA NEVER ENTERED THE RAC - EDWARDS, BIDEN OR RICHARDSON WOULD HAVE SPLIT THE MAJORITY OF THE BLACK VOTE- BLACK FOLKS WAS NEVER GONNA RALLY BEHIND HILLARY, ESPECIALLY BLACK WOMEN WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN A WOMEN REMAINING IN A MARRIAGE WHERE HER HUSBAND CONSTANTLY CHEAT SISTERS DONT PLAY THAT, WHITE WOMEN DO. " YOU CAN HATE ME NOW"

[jack3213]

IF YOU IMAGINE FOR A MINUTE OBAMA A WHITE MAN- AND SPEAKING TO A LARGE GROUP OF BLACK PEOPLE- DO YOU ACTUALY THINK OBAMA WOULD BE AS POPULAR? IF HILLARY WAS A WHITE MAN SHE WOULD BE LAUGHED OUT OF POLITICS. MCCAIN SPEAKS TO ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE AND HAS A HEALTHY BALANCE OF SUPPORTERS, NOT BECAUSE OF HIS COLOR OR GENDER. THE DIVISIVE COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE NATURALLY AS LONG AS THERE IS AN UNQUALIFED BLACK MAN OR A NON CREDIBLE WHITE WOMAN ON THE TICKET. CREDIBILITY, QUALIFICATIONS, & EXPERIANCE REALLY DO MATTER.

[realpatriot1]

spoon2456,

It remains to be seen if she can get the white vote in North Carolina, that''s not a given. I can tell you that his current lead in the polls is across the board.

[spoonerfineart]

Each side is going to have its favorites and special states. If you had a state filed with old white women, guess who would win that state, Hillary (Oh that state exist, it''s called Pennsylvania). Likewise, If you had a state filled with Black voters guess who would win that state (see North Carolina results two weeks from now). Hillary argues, "Why can''t he close the deal" I say to you, wait till the NC result and ask "Why can''t she get the Black vote"

AND SO GO THE STATES ... DIVERSE

The question you have to ask, WHAT IS THE RESULTS OF THE CUMULATIVE VOTE AMONG ALL VOTING AMERICANS. THAT IS TRULEY YOUR MEASURE.

Right now it is mathematically impossible for Hillary to win this nomination(unless she uses the same fuzzy math calculator Bush has used)

[realpatriot1]

libra127,

Most people who are not married to backroom politics realize that it would be a circumvention of democracy
for the Super Delegates to overule the voters.

[blackspirit3]

REV WRIGHT PRAYED WITH BILL CLINTON WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BE IMPEACHED FOR USING THE OVAL OFFICE TO *** A YOUNG WOMEN, HIS DNA IS PROBLY STILL ON THE DESK, YET THE CLINTONS HAVE A NERVE TO THROW HIM UNDER THE BUS, ALL THAT NHE DID FOR THEM, HE PRAYED ITH THEM WAS PRESONALLY INVITED BY BILL TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST, WE EVEN HAVE A PIC OF BILL AND TREV WRIGHT SHAKING HANDS TOGETHER, NOW HE WAS AMERICAN ENOUGH TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST WHEN THE CLINTONS NEED BLAKC LEADERS TO HELP THEM FIGHT FOR THEIR OFFICE, NOW THE CLINTONS DISSING REV WRIGHT AND BLACK FOLKS, SHAME SHAME SHAME.

[eshaneua]

Peter Paul Vs. Hillary Clinton Website Launched!!!
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Paul vs. Clinton website
Peter F. Paul has launched a new website to expose and inform the public of the upcoming landmark civil trial of Paul vs. Clinton. The case is pending in a California court against former President Bill Clinton, with Senator Hillary Clinton as a material status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008, and a trial date is expected to be announced in the case is expected to begin in May, 2008 as it proceeds to trial. discovery will expose an ongoing cover-up of the campaign finance crimes and the obstructions of justice directed by Hillary Clinton with the help of Bill Clinton and former DNC Chair Ed Rendell. The cover-up rivals Watergate in its corruption of each branch of government and the the media still refuses to cover Senator Clinton%u2019s involvement in the largest campaign finance fraud case in U.S. history,


Why the heck isn''t the news media reporting this??? Because Ms. Billary and her husband are paying them NOT TO. (Gee, I just answered my own question) HA!HA!

[blackspirit3]

BLACK AMERICANS HAVE DIED ON EVERY BATTLE FIELD AMERICA HAS BEEN ON, AND OUR PATRIOTISM IS QUESTIONED. WHITE AMERICANS CAN CUSS POLICE OUT, BUT A BLACK MAN BETTER NOT, WHITE MEN CAN BURN THE FLAG, BUT BLACK MEN BETTER WEAR THE LAPEL, WHITE MEN CAN BLOW UP FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN OKLAHOMA, THEIR IS NOT A HISTORY OF ONE BLACK MAN BLOWING UP ANYTHING IN AMERICA, YET OUR PATRIOTISM IS QUESTIONS? IF THATS NOT RACISM, THEN WHAT IS? THE SO CALLED WEATHER MEN WAS PARDONED BY BILL CLINTON - A PARDON IS AMERICA''S FORGIVENESS. WE FORGAVE THOSE WHITE PEOPLE WHO ATTEMPTED TO BLOW UP AMERICA BASES, YET WE QUESTION OBAMA PATRIOTISM BECAUSE HE ATTENDED A CHURCH? IF THIS IS NOT RACISM, THEN WHAT IS? WE WATCHED BILL CLINTON BASICALLY MOLEST AND RAPE WOMEN FOR OVER 40 YEARS, YET WHITE WOMEN DISTRUST OBAMA A MARRIED MAN WITH TWO DAUGHTERS HE WOULD DIE FOR? IS THATS NOT RACISM, THEN WHAT IS?

[ken_in_va]

Hillary Clinton in her interview with Harry Smith claimed she had won the PA primary by 10 percentage points. Like other recent claims, this is not quite right.

The latest vote count as of 4:17pm on Wednesday April 23 is:

Clinton 1,260,208 votes or 54.66%
Obama 1,045,444 votes or 45.34%
Margin of victory 214,764 votes or 9.32%

9% is not 10%...especially in tight elections.

[libra127]

She can''t win under the rules. She can only win by circumventing the rules.

Posted by realpatriot1 at 10:01 PM : Apr 23, 2008

Neither candidate can win without the superdelegates. Hillary CAN win if enough of the superdelegates side with her. That is not circumventing the rules.

[realpatriot1]

libra127, Let me add a clarification to your. There are 7 delegates to still award;that means her max pickup is 20.

She can''t win under the rules. She can only win by circumventing the rules.

[realpatriot1]

According to NBC''s exit polls 60% of Hillary''s white supporters said that race mattered to them and that they would not vote for Obama if he''s the nominee.

75% of Obama''s African-American voters said they would vote for Hillary if she''s the nominee.

I think we know where the larger racial problem is.

[tibu987]

It is time for Obama to go on the offensive against the belittling insults from the Clinton twins.
The Clintons, perhaps the most conniving, lying, scandalous pols to ever reach the White House should not be allowed there again.

The Clintons background from Arkansas to Washington has been one of scandals from the beginning, one of which even caused the suicide of one of their close associates.
Then, there is the matter of a one million dollars donation to Hillary''s campaign by indicted donor Norman Hsu. The money had to be returned.

How does it go. "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones".

Obama remains a breath of fresh air in Washington and has my vote.

[obama8years]

I think that Obama can win both Indiana and North Carolina. Then we can put the Rev. Wright BS and the "Obama called you bitter" *** to rest.
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Possible right. However there is always more stories waiting to Break.
What about Obama and Wrights Ties to ISM. Since Hannity broke the rev wright story , I have been emailing him the ISM information. Coming to theatre this Summer near you. LOL

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ archives/2007/09

Basically, the ISM will take anyone who will go to the West Bank and Gaza and become a human shield for the PLO and its thugs. The ISM seeks out any counterculture movements, college communists, anarchists, anyone with a %u201Cgripe%u201D as allies against Israel and the United States, imaginary or otherwise. Disaffected Jews are especially prized by the ISM to legitimize their goal of driving out the Jews from the Middle East so as to conceal their blatant anti-Semitism. Jews who ally with the ISM are frequently secular radical socialists who use their ancestry as a weapon against other Jews, the same as the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War 2. This site will deal with the ISM''''s use of "Jewish" activists to aid their fifth column to destroy both Israel and eventually America.

[blkpresident]

Hillary-Steinem ''08?

America can do better than this. Wonder who they would tap as Secretary of Defense, Jane Fonda?

[broncfan1661]

Obama picked up another Super delegate today. Oklahoma governor endorsed Obama and said he is the only candidate who can inspire the country and unite the parties.
Posted by concorde5 at 05:34 PM : Apr 23, 2008
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So much for theargument that the superdelegates should vote the way their people vote.

[mhintx]

I would just like to ask a simple question to all of the hard working families of America. Why would you trust Hillay Clinton to be your president and run this country when she can''t even keep her campaign out of debt? Yesterday was the second report of her campaign going into debt (remember the first time she had to loan her own campaign 5,000,000).

The way she has managed her campaign should let you know how she would run the country. We are 9 trillion dollars in debt and are borrowing tons of money from China. Hillary can''t even manage to pay her employees and their medical insurance on time so I wouldn''t entrust her with my children''s piggy bank!

[vmcneal2]

You just love to "spin" the truth, don''''t you. Hillary was up by 20% not 25%, and it was more like a month ago, not 2 weeks ago. She won by 10% and earned at least 80 delegates, to Obama''''s 66. That''''s a net of 14, not 10. And there are 12 still to be awarded. Please get your facts straight if you want to use that username.


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Posted by libra127 at 06:57 PM : Apr 23, 2008

And Obama is still ahead.

[libra127]

Hillary was up by 25 points 2 weeks ago and only won by 9%. AND only picked up 10 delegates. SHE CAN"T WIN, everyone KNOWS that and yet the Media continues to spin this as a race.

Posted by fairandbal at 05:05 PM : Apr 23, 2008

You just love to "spin" the truth, don''t you. Hillary was up by 20% not 25%, and it was more like a month ago, not 2 weeks ago. She won by 10% and earned at least 80 delegates, to Obama''s 66. That''s a net of 14, not 10. And there are 12 still to be awarded. Please get your facts straight if you want to use that username.