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No double-digit win for Hillary
Final tally by the PA Sec of State with 99.44% reporting has her win at 9.2% or less than half the percentage she held for months.
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The Clinton Camp will surely claim double digits, considering they are currently claiming that they have the popular vote edge. They'll see it as 54.6 to 45.4 and will round up to the nearest whole, meaning 55 to 44. Obama and Camp could see the difference as 9.2, and round it to the nearest whole and call it a mere 9 point loss. And the kicker is neither would be wrong.
April 23, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
9 percent is mathematically preferable because less information is lost, i.e. 9 is closer than 10 percent to the actual difference of 9.2 percent.
It reflects a partisan bias to choose 10 percent rather than 9 percent to represent the actual difference of 9.2 percent. The same partisan bias is required to represent Clinton as being ahead in the popular vote (by omitting caucuses and including states that did not hold sanctioned elections.) And 2 + 2 = 6 if you add another 2.
April 23, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink