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Obama announces another superdelegate -- Audra Ostergard of Nebraska -- so he edges Clinton 2-1 on the day after Pennsylvania.

Also: Clinton's net gain of delegates from Pennsylvania seems to be shrinking a little bit. An Obama memo says she'll net only 10, instead of 16 as was widely estimated earlier. NBC calculates a net of nine, with 3 that they haven't allocated yet.

There's a nasty little spat going on between the Clinton campaign and ABC, which says Hillary's press shop misleadingly cited the network for the dubious proposition that she now has a popular vote lead. You can read about it here.

To simplify it: The Clinton press operation, always reaching for a level of disingenuousness that might cause mere mortals to flinch, is arguing that there is some significance to the fact that, if you give Hillary 328,000 votes and Obama zero in Michigan where he was not on the ballot, her Pennsylvania win now puts her ahead.

Does this remind anyone of their effort to argue that Obama kindergarten aspirations to be president were proof of his overweening ambition?

One more look at the exit polls, from First Read, which finds that -- for all the talk about older voters and blue-collar voters -- white women continue to be the driving force for Hillary:

"Per the exit polls, 47% of the Pennsylvania Democratic electorate last night was made up of white women, higher than any other race/gender subgroup. Clinton ended up winning them by more than 30 points, 66%-34%.... They continue to rally to her side; nothing has shaken their confidence in her. If Clinton continues to beat Obama by 30-plus points among white women, how can he knock her out?"

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