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On a similar topic, I think it's really inaccurate for the media to say so-and-so "wins" a state, when many of them are apportioning delegates. So a "win" might not really mean that much, and lets people think that the election isn't as close as it is.

Posted by Raphael | February 5, 2008 6:58 PM
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Yay American politics: where the popular vote is put there to keep the proles distracted while the important folks make decisions.

Posted by Joh | February 5, 2008 6:59 PM
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By my very rough count -- multiplying the percentages times the delegates for the called states only, at 7:30 Clinton leads 473 delegates to 468 for Obama. That, my friends, is a statistical tie.

Posted by Fnarf | February 5, 2008 7:39 PM
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This just in...

Obama wins Conneticutt 51% to 48%

ABC has just announced that tonight's delegate count now looks like:

Obama 197
Clinton 190

Posted by Reality Check | February 5, 2008 7:44 PM
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I have 469 each right now. My statistics are not scientific, but I'll bet they come out really close, just you watch. It's a tie.

Posted by Fnarf | February 5, 2008 7:50 PM
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I think it's going to be a tie on the night, EVEN THOUGH Clinton is going to win California. Before Cal, Obama's well in the lead now. He's just gone ahead in MO.

Posted by Fnarf | February 5, 2008 9:15 PM
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as of 1030 eastern this morning, here are the delegate counts....

MSNBC:
Clinton has an overall 70 delegate lead according to their newscast, when all is said and done and all 1500+ delegates from yesterday are accounted for. Their website says Clinton 582 to Obama 485 currently.
(MSNBC is the only network that did a credible job talking about who was winning what delegates last night... their political director seemed to know beforehand how the delegates would be divided)

AP:
Clinton: 845
Obama: 765

CNN:
Clinton: 825 (includes 193 superdelegates) -- 335 super tues delegates so far
Obama: 732 (includes 106 superdelegates) -- 301 super tues delegates so far

NPR:
Clinton: 803 total -- 542 super tues
Obama: 742 total -- 540 super tues

Posted by thewalrus | February 6, 2008 7:25 AM

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