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Article: Popular-Vote Math Made Easy.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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With Hillary Clinton renewing her declaration of a popular-vote lead in the Democratic nomination contest, it's worth checking in on the actual math. Deriving an exact popular-vote count is tricky, since there are several ways of computing it. Here's a step-by-step look at how the various tallies are reached.
The Baseline
If you count all of the states and U.S. possessions that have held officially sanctioned primaries or caucuses in which exact popular vote tallies were maintained, the current tally (with a scattering of votes in Oregon yet to be added) is:
Obama: 16,577,001
Clinton: 16,161,025
Difference: Obama +415,976