by Josh Drobnyk
Hillary Clinton will net 12 delegates from her presidential primary win in Pennsylvania last month, according to a Morning Call analysis of preliminary vote totals released by the state today.
The New York senator, who won the primary with 55 percent of the vote, will pick up 85 pledged delegates. Barack Obama will gain 73.
While the statewide vote count has been known since the night of the Democratic primary, the results within each of the state's 19 congressional districts have taken longer to tally. Because two-thirds of the 158 pledged delegates up for grabs are apportioned based on votes in each congressional district, a final delegate total has been unavailable until now.
The state Democratic Party confirmed that the preliminary results put Clinton on tap to pick up 12 delegates from the state.
Clinton's 9-point victory in the state gave her 30 of the 55 delegates that were divvied up based solely on the statewide vote count. She won another 55 of the delegates based on the results in individual congressional districts, with the biggest bulk coming from the Philadelphia suburbs and northeastern and western Pennsylvania.
One significant victory for her came in the 11th District, which includes Scranton, where she and Obama made a combined half-dozen appearances during the six-week contests. There, Clinton won 71 percent of the vote, giving her just enough to claim four of the five delegates.
In the 15th District, which includes much of the Lehigh Valley, Clinton won with 61 percent of the vote. She took three of the five delegates.
But it was Obama who benefited from Pennsylvania's quirky system of handing out delegates. He won by big margins in Philadelphia's 1st and 2nd Districts, netting him eight more delegates than Clinton in the two districts alone.
Had Pennsylvania awarded all of its pledged delegates based on the overall vote count, Clinton would have walked away with 14 more delegates than Obama, instead of 12.
Either way, the bump does little to impact Obama's overall delegate advantage, which stood at 139 before the Pennsylvania primary. The Illinois senator has won support from more than half of the superdelegates who have announced their endorsement since Pennsylvanians voted.
Here are the delegate totals by congressional district:
1 -- Clinton 2, Obama 5
2 -- Clinton 2, Obama 7
3 -- Clinton 3, Obama 2
4 -- Clinton 3, Obama 2
5 -- Clinton 2, Obama 2
6 -- Clinton 3, Obama 3
7 -- Clinton 4, Obama 3
8 -- Clinton 4, Obama 3
9 -- Clinton 2, Obama 1
10 -- Clinton 3, Obama 1
11 -- Clinton 4, Obama 1
12 -- Clinton 4, Obama 1
13 -- Clinton 4, Obama 3
14 -- Clinton 3, Obama 4
15 -- Clinton 3, Obama 2
16 -- Clinton 2, Obama 2
17 -- Clinton 2, Obama 2
18 -- Clinton 3, Obama 2
19 -- Clinton 2, Obama 2
Statewide -- Clinton 30, Obama 25
Josh Drobynk reports from Washington for the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, a Tribune Co. newspaper.
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Comments
What happened to that double-digit victory in Gov. Rendell's Pennsylvania? I guess that went the same way, that sniperfire in Bosnia went, up in smoke!!? Why are Senators McCain and Clinton, continuing to fabricate their actions and there chances, because they can't offer any thing else!! Go, Senator Obama, give 'em heck in Indians!!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | May 2, 2008 5:39 PM
So she's only 130 delegates behind with 7 or 8 of those "little states" that don't really matter to go. Even if Hillary wins big in Kentucky and WV, wins Indiana, and runs close in Oregon and NC, she'll still be behind by around 100 delegates. Pretty close but she still loses.
Posted by: Tom O | May 2, 2008 6:25 PM
The Game's not over til the fat lady dances......... So wait and see before you get out your pom pom's...HRC in 2008. BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME...NOW...
Posted by: kaye m. | May 2, 2008 6:32 PM
What these results fail to show is that, since Super Tuesday, Barack Obama has picked up 92 superdelegates, and hillary has picked up 10. Obama of course still leads her in pledged delegates and more states (2 to1) that she can NEVer catch up to. Her argument about the "Big" states or the "states that count" is demeaning to all the other voters, who COLLECTIVELY amount to MORE of what America wants than the dense populations of big city-states.
Posted by: tony | May 2, 2008 7:09 PM
Thanks for this blog announcement. We won't see this on the front pages, I guess.
Posted by: Caroline Jenkins | May 2, 2008 7:45 PM
SO LONG BILLARY!
SOUTH BEND — "The Hillary Clinton campaign is dealing with a quickly exploding controversy. WSBT News has received dozens of emails about a YouTube video that shows a high level Clinton campaign advisor allegedly making degrading remarks about people from Indiana."
"In the video from 1992, Mickey Kantor, who was an advisor to former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and the commerce secretary when Clinton was president, says it doesn’t matter whether Clinton wins Indiana. He then appears to make comments about Hoosiers at large."
"Kantor is currently a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign."
Full story here:
http://www.wsbt.com/news/election/2008/18488999.html
Posted by: Turn out the lights, the parties over for Billary | May 2, 2008 8:13 PM
This is exactly why the Democrats are still looking for a candidate in May. The current system is not meant for head to head competition. It's meant to weed out the weak in a group of candidates.
All the voting is just a facade; in the end, it's still insiders selecting the candidates.
Posted by: Andrew | May 2, 2008 9:22 PM
Hillary Clinton is going to win the Democratic nomination, and for all of you jerks that tried to get her to quit, you will pay karmically for your bullshit! Count on it!!
Posted by: Katie McCants | May 2, 2008 9:56 PM
Since WHEN is the looming threat of BURNING DOWN AMERICA if the nomination doesn't go to Obama constitute a 'uniting' kind of stance?
Posted by: Obama's a thug and you know it | May 3, 2008 12:05 AM
Senato Obama has a lot more explaining to do:
Anton Rezko: Criminal form Chicago and his ties with him
William Ayers: Working on a board with a terrorist: Would you?
Black Theology: Anti American and anti white views
Trinity United Church of Christ.
Not so fast Obama
Posted by: America the Beautiful | May 3, 2008 7:28 AM
SNIPER FIRE.
Posted by: CC | May 3, 2008 6:55 PM
This is NOT a basketball game or some Illinois High school sectional for tiddley winks kids.
IT'S ABOUT GETTING THE COUNTRY BACK FROM THE REPUBLICANS AND REPAIRING THE DAMAGE OF THE LAST 8 YEARS AND GETTING BILL CLINTON'S DOMESTIC AGENDA BACK ON TRACK AND THE EXPANDED VERSION OF SAME THAT HILLARY'S PROPOSING.
I'm sorry to shout but DAMN! I wish you kids would READ!
Posted by: SuperDelegates Count ONLY counts at convention | May 3, 2008 10:13 PM
The object of the game is avoiding Bush III. After Tuesday's results prove the obvious -- Obama has won -- it is time to move to the end game. Billary can prove that she is sincere by endorsing Obama and begin to work her tail off for him, which is to say for change.
Posted by: Tom S | May 4, 2008 9:17 AM