Well, we have semi-final results from Pennsylvania. With 99.2 percent of the returns in, Clinton apparently falls just short of a double-digit victory.
She gets 1237696 votes according to the Pennsylvania secretary of state, while Obama gets 1043174. That is 54.3 percent for Clinton and 45.7 percent for Obama, a margin of 8.6 percent -- or more exactly, 8.5284 percent.
CNN, for reasons that aren't immediately obvious, has Clinton with more votes and Obama with less on its website, also with 99 percent counted. Their tally: Clinton 1258245 and Obama 1042297. That pushes her over 9 percent, but not to 10: 9.386831 percent.
For the record: Clinton won Ohio by more than 10, 55.23 to 44.77 percent. Obama improved a little bit in Pa., but so slightly that it hardly seems to be an important part of the narrative.
It's not clear why that matters, but it's not the most trivial piece of information related to this primary either.
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