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There is no such thing as a nationwide primary, and even if there were yesterday wouldn't have been it (just under half of states voted, not all of them). That said, for those interested in seeing how the votes panned out yesterday, two bloggers have taken a look at the numbers and come up with popular vote totals from across the country.
With almost all of the voting in, here's the popular vote calculation for the Democrats:Clinton 48.97% (6,967,302)
Obama 48.04% (6,835,447)Based on totals on MSNBC.com, there are still some outstanding votes. There is only 82% reporting in Minnesota; Arkansas is 92% in; Arizona is 93% in; California is 96%; Illinois is 97%; New Mexico is 98%; Alaska looks like delegate votes not raw vote.
Tom Schaller does some number crunching of his own, and using a slightly different metric and basing the totals on results from a different source (CNN v. MSNBC), he finds:
Using CNN's reported results , and rounding to the nearest thousand (both when inputing the numbers into my speadsheet and in the totals)--and noting that there still some votes still to be counted in New Mexico, not that it will upset the overall result to report here--I have a preliminary total of 7.35M votes yesterday for Hillary Clinton and 7.29 for Barack Obama.Overall, a total vote margin of about 65K despite nearly 15 million total votes cast for one or the other. Ignoring all other stray votes, that gives her 50.2 percent of the two-candidate vote share and him the balance, 49.8 percent.
Either way you slice it, it appears that the overall vote margin between Clinton and Obama was remarkably small -- certainly smaller than the overall difference between the number of people voting in Democratic and Republican primaries (upwards of 50 to 100 percent more voters may have participated in Democratic than Republican contests yesterday). And with both sides seeming to agree that the delegate haul yesterday was fairly close -- the Obama campaign is projecting their candidate winning 847 delegates to 834 delegates; the Clinton campaign is claiming a one delegate lead for its candidate -- it's hard not to come to the conclusion that, expectations aside (and I'll get to that point in a subsequent post today, hopefully), this was about as close to a tie as things come in politics.
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