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With 88% of PA precincts reporting, Clinton leads Obama 55% to 45%.
She will pick up an estimated 200K popular votes, cutting Obama's overall popular vote lead to 500K.
TrimmedWith 88% of PA precincts reporting, Clinton leads Obama 55% to 45%. She will pick up an estimated 200K popular votes, cutting Obama's overall popular vote lead to 500K. 4 Comments |
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I cant believe that popular vote metric which does not even take into account some of the caucus states is now being accepted as a reportable metric.
Urgh
Unlike what the commenter above is implying, we have state-provided estimates for those caucus states which don't report popular votes. Check out http://www.realclearpolitics.com.
"She will pick up an estimated 200K popular votes, cutting Obama's overall popular vote lead to 500K."
Um, not quite. Is there a reason you're disenfranchising voters in 4 entire states, caucus states that have not reported popular vote totals? (Iowa, Nevada, Maine, Washington). The fact that those states don't even record "popular votes" should give political reporters a hint that it's not a useful metric.
Jon, it's true there are estimates for unreported popular votes in caucus states. Unfortunately, this entry about Obama's popular vote lead being cut to 500,000 isn't counting them. If you add in the estimates for those 4 caucus states, Obama's pop. vote lead is now around 611,000. This "trimmed" entry should be corrected or clarified.