May I round 39% to 40%?

[rug]

Or must I wait for The Math experts to point out over the next several days that it is actually 39.2%?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Pssst. It is gonna be 42%

:-)

[Auntie Bush]

4. He's at 27% at 11:20.

How does he get up to 42%? :crazy:

[PBS Poll-435]

6. NONONO

She will win by 42%


:-)

[grantcart]

2. If it makes you feel better then be my guest

Congratulations on Mrs. Clinton's outstanding win in West Virginia.

[Mz Pip]

3. For what it's worth

Which really isn't really all that much in the grand scheme of things.

[habitual]

5. it depends on if you were not counting the decimal places

before tonight.

If, for example, you had been saying: Hillary will win by 42.8%, then it would be improper to, in the end, round to the nearest whole number (no decimal places).

However, if you had only been using whole numbers, then it would be proper to round to the nearest whole number.

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm

i figure you are OK unless you were actually using decimals in your posts previous to this.

[Colin D Cops]

7. As a rule, only 39.5% and above can be rounded to 40%

Rounding 39.4% or less would be unfair.

[PBS Poll-435]

8. Looking good.....

42%

[Tribetime]

9. you poll earlier this week was right...41% I think

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10. States with older populations are SO much easier to measure.

Less volatility.

[scheming daemons]

12. Because old farts have "brand loyalty".... it is why ad execs never target them....

Their minds are made up and COMPLETELY CLOSED..... on EVERYTHING.


It's why Plymouth was able to sell millions of shitty "K Cars" in the 80s and early 90s.... BRAND LOYALTY.


Old people are afraid to change....even when it is for their own good.

[PBS Poll-435]

14. I am not going to comment on your diatribe, I was just making a point about volatility.

[here_is_to_hope]

11. I will see your 40 and raise you two bits...

...which is close to what this win in WV means.

Luv ya...

[last1standing]

13. You can round it up to 100% and she's still a loser.

By the way, I love how Hillary supporters hate economists, mathematicians and everyone else who's ever made something of their lives now.

The entire camp has become the West Virginia of political campaigns. :rofl:

[rug]

15. Tsk, tsk. I feel your pain.

[last1standing]

16. I'm sure you do, rug. I'm sure you do.

In fact, I'm sure you feel a lot more pain than I do at this moment. I'm seeing low turnout and 7% not willing to vote for either participating candidate and know those numbers will keep your goddess of peace off the Obama ticket. So my pain isn't all that severe right now.

How's yours? :evilgrin:

[rug]

17. No pain at all, just faint amusement at a presumptive nominee struggling to get 26%.

Think he'll break 30% in Kentucky and Puerto Rico?

[last1standing]

18. No, I don't. But then he doesn't need to. Think Hillary will make the 86% she needs in OR?

I guess sometimes the pain can get so strong that it becomes numbness. I imagine Hillary's feeling that right about now. :rofl:

[rug]

19. If she wins them by better than 30%, she won't need 86% in Oregon.

It's not math, it's politics.

BTW, you should stop rolling around like that. You'll hurt yourself.

[last1standing]

21. You mean politics like the 2 super delegates that just announced for Obama?

You see, in the end it's math AND politics. Obama has beaten your candidate in both areas. Maybe you're one of those low information voters Hillary's pandering to, but most of us actually understand that concept.

As for rolling around, I'll take my chances because you're damned funny tonight. :rofl:

[rug]

24. I'll take a 200,000 vote plurality over two superdelegates.

Try democracy. It's good for you.

[last1standing]

25. But you just said this was about politics. Now it's popular vote in one state of 50?

I wish you'd make up your mind on what it is because you're starting to sound as delusional as Hillary when she changes her mind on what "really matters" each week.

Are you going to try the "If we were repubs I'd already have the nomination" line next?

Or will it be the "If you look at land mass, I've got much more geographical area than my opponent" Hillarity?

My bet is you'll try the "Michigan counts even though I cheated my ass off to get it" lie.

Maybe, just maybe, you can come up with some new and interesting line of bullshit she hasn't tried yet. I hear if you send one in to her campaign you get to enter a contest to take over some of her mounting $20 million debt.

Oh Oh! Here comes that laughter again! :rofl:

[rug]

26. I can see you're having flashbacks to old GDP posts.

I'll just step over you and go to a saner place.

[last1standing]

28. Awww! Doesn't rug want to play anymore?

You can't win the debate so you have to move on. I'm good with that as it seems you're just like your goddess - you only acknowledge your supposed wins, no matter how irrelevant.

And one more time..... :rofl:

[jillan]

20. I say you can round it up to this

[Occam Bandage]

23. I think you can round it to this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_el_pr/primary_analysis

[Occam Bandage]

22. Round it to whatever you like. The media spin is already "too little, too late."

[quakerboy]

27. As an Obama supporter

I am rounding it to 44%. Counting out Edwards, its 72/28.

It is just barely enough to give her 1 metric where she is ahead, for the moment. If you count ONLY Primary votes(ignoring caucuses completely) and ONLY states(no territories or districts) and you count the votes of Florida and Michigan as is, awarding Obama a 0 for Michigan, then Hillary is up by aproximately 4000 votes in that one single and only measurement.

Now, since yall are so Eager to count ALL the vote, you are going to hold back on the big judgments based on this one rather incomplete measurement until my vote has been counted, right?