The Popular Vote

Posted on 06/04/2008 at 12:06 pm by Bob Cesca

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.

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  • thelastgunslinger

    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.

  • CMLA

    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 ?

  • Bob_Cesca

    I don’t recall. Have the intertubes coughed up any answers?

  • http://donrobertosblog.blogspot.com/ roberto

    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.

  • ceu

    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…