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WRAPUP 8-Clinton stays alive with Pennsylvania win
Submitted by Genova on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 21:20
Hillary Clinton defeated rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, prolonging an increasingly negative Democratic presidential race and keeping alive her White House hopes.
Clinton's margin of victory over Obama was still unclear with fewer than 10 percent of votes counted. She was aiming for a substantial win that would help her narrow Obama's lead in delegates who select the Democratic nominee at the August convention.
The New York senator's one-time 20-point lead over Obama in Pennsylvania had slipped to single digits in many polls amid an advertising onslaught by Obama, who outspent her 2-to-1 in the first Democratic nominating contest in six weeks.
