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June 4, 2008
The Popular Vote
According to Real Clear Politics:
Obama 17,535,458 - 48.1%
Clinton 17,493,836 - 48.0%
Obama wins by 41,622 votes
The only way Senator Clinton wins the popular vote is if you count Michigan, but give zero votes to Senator Obama. That'd be Clinton +286,687. However, if you count Michigan and give Senator Obama the uncommitted votes -- as well as the caucus state totals -- Senator Obama wins by 61,703 votes.
Close, but ultimately irrelevant. I'm going with the RCP total above.
Filed under: Barack Obama || Hillary Clinton || Polls
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Posted By Bob Cesca | June 4, 2008 12:06 PM
Comments
Listening to her supporters argue about popular vote this and he worked the delegate system that, ugh! and someone needs to tell the press that if someone has lost a contest it's therefore impossible for that same someone to quit. You can't quit if you have lost! So frustrating at this point.
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at June 4, 2008 3:49 PM
Bob, this may be off the subject, but about 5 or 6 years ago the Clintons said or did somthing very embarrassing in Australia. Do you remember what it was ?
Posted by: CMLA at June 4, 2008 4:38 PM
I don't recall. Have the intertubes coughed up any answers?
Posted by: Bob_Cesca at June 4, 2008 9:32 PM
FiveThirtyEight.com offers a popular vote calculator. As it says, there are 972 ways to count them. You decide. By my methods, Obama comes out on top.
Posted by: roberto at June 5, 2008 1:41 AM
Have you noticed how Clinton's vote totals keep going up with each retelling? It used to be 17 million, then 17 & 1/2 mil. Tuesday night it was 18 million & this morning (Thurs) someone on Scarborough (Romney, I think) was spouting "well over 18 million". I hadn't realized that that many superdelegates had endorsed her...
Posted by: ceu at June 5, 2008 10:14 AM
