The Morning Roundup
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ABC's "Good Morning America"
-In an interview with Dianne Sawyer, Hillary called her win last night "very big and very sweet". She noted her campaign has been flooded with donations in the hours since and said, "the road to Pennsylvania Avenue does lead through Pennsylvania". Sawyer noted the exit polls showing a high percentage of Pennsylvania voters who said the campaign got too negative and asked Clinton whether she will do anything differently from here on out. Clinton responded, "In a campaign you're going to have back and forth, that's part of a campaign." (Video)
-George Stephanopoulos called it a "solid win" for Clinton, but added that superdelegates will probably still "hang back." "I think the concern super delegates have is that Senator Obama has had four chances to put this race away...he can't quite do it," he said. (Video)
NBC's "Today"
-In an interview with Matt Lauer, Clinton emphasized her point that she has won more total votes overall than Obama. Responding to Matt Lauer's comments about the exit polls showing disapproval of Clinton's often negative campaign, Clinton said, "they looked at everything, they read everything, they listened hard, and they concluded at the end of that that I am the better candidate and would be the better president and I think that's a very positive outcome for me."
-Tim Russert said, "Indiana is critical...if she wins then it goes all the way through June".
Fox News' "Fox and Friends"
"If we had the same [primary] system as the Republicans, I'd already be the nominee," said Clinton when asked about the Democratic system.
On more debates: "I think it's a shame that Sen. Obama will not agree to debates in Indiana and North Carolina," she said. "I've accepted any and all debates in both states because most people really want to see us. We've only had four debates with the two of us."
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"Clearly, we see this as an election where people get to choose and that's what they did in Pennsylvania with a record turnout," said Clinton in an interview with Joe Scarborough. "It was a tremendous boost to my campaign and my argument that I'm a stronger candidate against Sen. McCain in the fall."
"If you're outspent by three- or four-to-one and you win by double-digits, that raises more questions about your opponent than it does about you," she said. "I just think it's going to be interesting to see if anybody else asks them in the next couple of days."
On the New York Times' editorial hit today: "I think people turned out in record numbers because they were positively inspired and energized."
On pledged delegates: "If you count the votes I got in Michigan I now have been given more votes than anybody ever running the Democratic primary. It's going to be up to delegates to decide who is going to be the stronger candidate and who's going to be the best president," she said. "And the [super] delegates are given the opportunity to exercise independent judgment."
(Gregory Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Roundup.)

