The US election - Obama's general election chances questioned - "he will not be able to win the states which count" - by Suzanne Goldenberg and Ewen MacAskill
Clinton, who has won most of the primaries since February 3, is expecting to take a majority of the remaining nine contests. But, more importantly, her campaign team believes the big success in Pennsylvania was to plant doubts about his chances against John McCain. "Obama is unelectable," one of her advisers said yesterday.
Exit polls in Pennsylvania showed low-income and conservative voters had yet to embrace Obama, raising the prospect that they could defect to McCain next November and cost the Democrats the White House. After a hard-fought race, Obama lost among white women by 32 points, among Catholics by 38 points, among middle-income households by 20 points. The gap suggested continued divisions in the Democratic base with Obama running very strongly among African Americans and younger and college-educated voters, but unable to make real headway among more conservative, small town Democrats.
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