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Clinton wins in Pennsylvania |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
(MSNBC) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday won Pennsylvania’s presidential primary, a victory that analysts said she had to have if she were to remain a credible candidate for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton, independent analysts and the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois had predicted ahead of time that Clinton would win the state, where she enjoyed large leads in opinion polls until recently. But after closing the deficit in the last few weeks, Obama’s advisers said he would have the momentum unless Clinton won by a sizable margin.
With 84 percent of the precincts reporting, Clinton led by 55 percent to 45 percent, and she told a raucously cheering crowd in Philadelphia that she had done the job. Read More Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
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