Clinton took PA by 10% a very good margin considering the struggle the campaign has gone through over the past month.

Racking up about 22 delegates (Obama total, Clinton total) hasn’t changed much in the grand scheme of things, Obama is still in the lead of pledged-delegates as well as in the popular vote.

Yet, the looming horror of the Democratic Party is that with the win in PA, the Clinton Campaign now has the reason to push all the way until the convention, regardless of the damage it could cause to the party in the general election against a hardened opponent who has had months to prepare and campaign.

On Wednesday morning, the hope crowd woke up feeling just a little less hopeful.

After Senator Hillary Clinton beat Senator Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania presidential primary by a hard-to-argue-with nine points, many Obama supporters felt a double sense of impending doom: first, renewed fear that Mrs. Clinton, who still trails Mr. Obama in both the popular vote and the pledged-delegate count, may yet find a way to secure the nomination, and second, worry that the brutal nomination fight is tarnishing what once looking like a gleaming chance for Democratic victory in November.

So, with Dean’s proclamation to the remaining super delegates the general party is starting to get anxious; but the Clinton camp is still playing for time, waiting for something to happen.