Pa. win in pocket, Clinton eyes Ind., N.C.

PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, with a win in Pennsylvania in her pocket, now looks to taking on challenger Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Indiana and North Carolina.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton, D-N.Y., received 55 percent of the vote to Obama's 45 percent in unofficial returns, several media outlets reported Wednesday.

"I am in this race to fight for you -- to fight for everyone who has ever been counted out," Clinton said Tuesday night in her victory speech in Philadelphia.

Obama left the Keystone State before the primary results began being announced, traveling to Indiana, which has its primary in two weeks, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported.

"There were a lot of folks who didn't think we could make this a race when it started," Obama said during a speech in Evansville. "Six weeks later we closed the gap."

Several polls indicated Obama trailed by as much as 20 points in the six weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania primary.

Commonwealth Secretary Pedro Cortes said voter turnout statewide as "phenomenal," estimating between 40 percent and 50 percent of registered voters went to the polls. Turnout in the 2004 presidential primary was 21 percent, Cortes said.