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February 06, 2008

Super Tuesday -- difference in total votes less than half a percent

Not quite all the votes have been counted yet, but the vast majority have been (including 93% in California), so I decided to quickly tally up the total votes for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama yesterday to see if either managed to satisfy my arbitrary criterion for a "winner".  Remember, that arbitrary criterion was a margin in the total number of votes of around 4%.

The results so far (8:40 AM CST), not including Alaska, which I only saw delegate totals for (but it's a small state so won't throw things off by too much):

Hillary Clinton   7.286 million votes
Barack Obama   7.242 million votes

That's a difference of 45,000 votes out of 14.5 million -- less than a third of a percent.

So Super Tuesday, the first near-national primary, was essentially a tie.

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