No one really thought otherwise, except for one weird, lone, pollster, but Hillary Clinton is the official winner of the Pennsylvania primary, 55-45. Shouts to Blackmistressdiva, who came closest in yesterday's contest, even though she was the only one who really tried — thanks for participating, guys!. CNN provides a handy voting map of the state of Pennsylvania:

As you can see, Clinton won just about all of the state, geographically speaking. In some counties in the North and Northwest, you know, where they're really bitter, she won by as many as 40 percentage points. Clearly, the darker area (why does Obama's area have to be dark? Huh?*) that Obama won is more heavily populated with a high concentration of blacks. Speaking of blacks, they showed up for Obama in higher numbers than the polls suggested — I saw an 81/19 prediction early yesterday — with 92 percent of the black vote. He also led with male voters by a few percentage points. None of this is a big change from earlier contests, but what does it all mean?

Well, for one, Hillary Clinton closed in on the popular vote — she's now within just over 100,000 votes of Obama, and that's counting the Florida votes but not the Michigan ones (which will be counted as is over my dead body!). In the superdelegate race, the popular vote will be a big selling point with Clinton — maybe her only selling point, in addition to her record of winning populous states — since she's not going to beat Obama in pledged delegates.

I, and every other pundit I have read, still believe that this win, despite making Hillary Clinton and her supporters smile, does nothing to push us any closer or further away from a resolution. I look at this map and all of the other election maps and see that the overwhelming majority of black voters have completely turned away from the Clintons as the primary season progressed. Worrisome for the Clintons? Hell, yeah. This should worry the Clinton camp should they make it to the general election, as much as the older, working class vote worries the Obama camp. I know I'm voting Democrat no matter what. Many, many others — on both sides of the coin — are not so sure.

*Just kidding — before all of you racism apologists jump down my throat.