NUMBERS --0.003627716% Difference

[underpants]

Ruusert (piehead) had the total votes cast last night on NBC Nightly News. I couldn't find anything on NBC but I did find this (should be representative)

Talk about close. 53,120 TOTAL difference in the Super Tuesday Democratic races which out of 14,642,822 votes cast is .003627716% difference.


TOTAL VOTES CAST

Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971)
Obama: 49.8% (7,294,851)

Total votes cast in 21 GOP contests yesterday among McCain, Romney and Huckabee:

McCain: 43.1% (3,611,459)
Romney: 35.4% (2,961,834)
Huckabee: 21.5% (1,796,729)

Democratic votes for Clinton and Obama: 14,622,822 (63.6%)
Republican votes for McCain, Romney and Huckabee: 8,370,022 (36.4%)


Put another way, the Clinton/Obama race drew 76% more voters than the McCain/Romney/Huckabee race.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/02/super_tuesday_the_most_interes.html

I have re-done my calculations with the latest vote totals as of 4:30 p.m., and guess what?
The raw numbers grew a bit, but the percentages are exactly the same.

Clinton: 50.2% (7,427,942)
Obama: 49.8% (7,370,023)

Now keep in mind, this is just among those voting for Obama or Clinton. If you add in Edwards and Uncommitted, etc., the percentages would change slightly, but the point is the same. That breakdown looks like this:

Clinton: 48.7%
Obama: 48.4%
Edwards: 2.7%
Uncommitted: 0.17%
Biden: 0%
Richardson: 0%%

[ananda]

1. Perhaps that's good news about..

.. the much larger number of Dems who
cast votes, as compared to the number
of Reeps who voted.

smiling smiley

[dmallind]

2. It's 0.36% BTW - you have a decimal ID'd as a percent.

Still close of course, but that factor of 100 is a big deal mathematically speaking

[underpants]

3. D'OH!

:banghead: