For county by county results, run your mouse over this map.
The Dem primary victory of Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, the "Keystone State," nails down her argument that she is the only Democrat who can win in November.
Hillary consistently wins primaries in states with large numbers of senior citizens, middle class, blue collar, union households, rural Democrats and churchgoers. Each of these has been a key component to Democrat presidential election victories in the larger states. In Pennsylvania, that reality is illustrated by the map above which shows the breadth of Hillary's appeal and how isolated Obama's strength is to urban areas where large black populations, or those with a higher percentage of uppper income liberals give him the edge.
In addition to winning Democrat primaries in his homestate of Illinois, Obama did very well (above 50%) in Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Wisconsin, South Carolina and the District of Columbia. Other than that, he's limping along with results in the mid 40% range.
Obama also did well in caucuses, but there won't be any caucuses on November, 4, 2008. It's all about getting more votes than the other guy and in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, there is little doubt McCain will win. So what would Obama be left with as a foundation for victory as the Dem's nominee? Not much!
More Good News: Hillary Knows Where Bill Is Tonight!Unlike Hillary's big win in Ohio and Texas six weeks ago where Bill was nowhere to be seen, he took the stage with his wife tonight in Philadelphia.
But as comforting as that news is the best news for Hillary tonight is that her margin of victory in the popular vote in Pennsylvania was over 215,000 votes. And that goes a long way to erase her deficit in the popular vote that was one of Obama's strongest claims to the nomination up to now
It's going to get even MORE interesting!
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