Turning their attention to Indiana, site of a crucial May 6 contest, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama argued yesterday over how the undecided Democratic superdelegates should judge the race from here on.

In addition, the Clinton campaign, rejuvenated by its 200,000-plus-vote victory in Pennsylvania, reported that it expected to have raised $10 million online in the 24 hours after the declaration of her victory Tuesday night.

The money is desperately needed by an organization that, as of April 1, reported it had $9 million in the bank and owed $10 million. Obama reported that it had $42 million and debts of less than $1 million. Clinton won in Pennsylvania despite being outspent by a huge margin.

Speaking in Indianapolis, the New York senator said that the fairest way to determine the winner of the party's presidential nomination was to look at the overall popular vote - and to include the results from the primaries in Michigan and Florida, which the Democratic National Committee has refused to recognize.

"As of today, I have received more votes from the people who have voted than anyone else," Clinton said. She acknowledged that she was including the results from Florida, where none of the candidates campaigned, and from Michigan, where Obama was not on the ballot.

Obama and his aides disputed the Clinton campaign's view, saying that Obama leads the popular vote by nearly 500,000, not counting Michigan and Florida, and that the superdelegates must in the end confirm the candidate who has won the most delegates in primaries and caucuses.

At a news conference in New Albany, Ind., the Illinois senator dismissed Clinton's statement as a ploy meant to suggest "that somehow they're not behind." His campaign manager, David Plouffe, said the number of pledged delegates won "is clearly the most important measurement that the superdelegates are going to factor in."

According to the Associated Press, Obama had a lead of 155 among pledged delegates, down by roughly 11 as a result of his Pennsylvania defeat, and an overall delegate lead of 131, 1,723 to 1,592. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.

Still to be decided are 408 pledged delegates, to be allocated via the remaining nine contests, and about 300 superdelegates, who are party and elected officials. To close the gap, Clinton needs to win about 60 percent of all remaining delegates, which is hard to do under the party's proportional system of delegate allocation.

Both sides reported new superdelegate endorsements yesterday. Clinton's came from Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee, Obama's from Gov. Brad Henry of Oklahoma.

The May 6 primaries, in Indiana and North Carolina, offer a combined 187 delegates, more than Pennsylvania's 158. For Obama, they represent the last chance to end the nomination fight without it going into June; were he to win both contests, pressure would mount for Clinton to drop out.

Current polls show a tight race in Indiana and Obama comfortably ahead in North Carolina.

The two camps also debated the significance of the Pennsylvania outcome and the strength of their candidates in the general election.

Gov. Rendell said that Pennsylvania had altered the whole dynamic of the race in a way that benefited Clinton.

In New Jersey, Gov. Corzine said he found it hard to imagine that a candidate could win California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Michigan and not be seen as the stronger nominee. Clinton has won all of those primaries.

The former first lady told CBS that Pennsylvania demonstrated that she's more electable than Obama.

"The big win that I had, the broad base of coalition that I put together, is exactly what we're going to need to have in the fall," she said. "And in fact that's what I've done, in big states, in swing states."

Speaking on Obama's behalf, Plouffe told reporters that "the structure of the race remains unchanged" post-Pennsylvania and added: "Let's move away from the theoretical to the world of reality here. How is she going to do this?"

The Obama campaign also rejected Clinton's argument on electability, pointing to numerous states - some of them which Democrats rarely win in presidential elections - in which Obama leads Republican John McCain in the polls.

"You know the way we're going to close the deal is by winning," Obama said, when asked about his failure on several occasions to put Clinton away. "And right now we're winning."

When the primaries are over, he said, "it will be, I think, apparent that we'll be in the strongest position to win in November."

Today, Clinton campaigns in North Carolina. Obama will spend the day at home in Chicago.

Win Margin: 9.2%

On closer examination, Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently did not score a "double-digit" win Tuesday, as has been widely reported.

According to the state election Web site, Clinton got 54.6 percent of the vote, Barack Obama 45.4. If you round off those numbers, the race is 55-45, a victory margin of 10 percentage points. The actual gap, though, is 9.2 percentage points, which does not qualify

as double digits.

- Larry Eichel

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