PK
2008-04-23 21:10:20
Sorry, but Sen. Clinton’s win was not a 10 point victory. She won by 9.4 percentage points. In any system of mathematical rounding that I know, this rounds down to 9, not up to 10. The New York Times, even where it reports the results in whole numbers (e.g., 55 to 45 percentage points, rather than 54.7 to 45.3) says that the difference in her favor is 9 percentage points.
It is also important to note that she did not win Philly. In the general election, no democrat can win PA without winning Philly. The republicans tend to dominate in the center of the state. She may not want to push her “If you didn’t win it in the primary, you can’t win it in the fall” argument too far. It can work against her.
