Saying she leads the popular vote if the disqualified Florida and Michigan primary results are considered, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was certainly lionizing herself after her recent Pennsylvania win yesterday.  

Clinton called on superdelegates to heed her self-defined lead in the popular vote when selecting the Democratic presidential nominee. She claimed that she was enjoying a prodigious $3.5 million overnight fundraising haul after Pennsylvania win.

Mrs. Clinton, who was feeling pressure to quit the race a few days ago, said, "More people have now voted for me than have voted for my opponent." Clinton stated that counting votes cast in the disqualified Florida and Michigan primaries. Otherwise, she still lags behind Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the popular vote and more importantly, in delegates needed for the nomination.

Clinton said her nearly 10-point Pennsylvania win and her victories in other large swing states such as Ohio and Florida position her best to beat presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

Reacting to Clinton’s claims, Obama campaign stated that Obama is best candidate to defeat the republican rival. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe marked 13 states in which Obama leads McCain in general election polls that Mrs. Clinton would lose — including Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon and Michigan. He added that "any Democrat" will carry California and New York, big states in the Clinton column.

Correcting Clinton’s mathematics, Plouffe said, “Mrs. Clinton is likely to gain — at most — 12 delegates from her Pennsylvania win, but his boss is less than 300 delegates away from securing the nomination."