Congrats Hillary on your 9 point victory.

[thevoiceofreason]

Sorry Hillfans - it isn't, and it ain't gonna be, double digits.

With 98% in, Hillary is up by 9.44%, and on everywhere except Planet Denial, that gets rounded down to a 9% victory.

Way to go Obama! In her own backyard, her terra familia, enduring all you did, and knocked her down to a single digit win.

But, I am serious when I say congrats to Hillary and her supporters.

Time to strap up, now we're back on our turf!

[anonymous171]

1. THE MEDIA SAYS 10 POINTS! THEY WANT HER TO STAY IN!

[bobbert]

19. Not many scientists in the media, you're not supposed to round numbers to the nearest digit until

you finish your arithmetic. They are using pre-rounded numbers to get the 10 point difference when it is a 9 pt difference.

[phrigndumass]

2. And we don't have to wait six whole weeks for the next one!

:woohoo:

[rug]

3. How many hundredths of a point is 1,233,000 Democrats?

[Lost-in-FL]

10. Or 1,233,000 republicans n/t

[rug]

27. If you think 1,233,000 Republicans voted for Clinton today, you're more than lost.

[Barack_America]

40. Your post makes no sense whatsoever.

But, then again, they rarely do.

[Condem]

4. my great friend voice

a link, perhaps. This is HUGE.

[Coexist]

6. 9% just like I predicted

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/

[Condem]

9. Fl, who is the 2% out?

[Coexist]

17. I don't know - the state website should say

http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/

[Coexist]

5. how, in the new math, does one round 9.4% to 10%?

[Guaranteed]

8. It's like sales tax. Even 9.001% gets rounded up.

Cuz it's Clinton, and if we don't round it up, she's dead.

[BenDavid]

7. well hell, it will be reported all night and all day on Wednesday as

a 10 point win plus over 200, 000 votes margain..... I agree with HRC, why cannot obama close the deal?

[tabatha]

11. Because not only is he running against

Hillary Clinton who has long time ties with PA, but Bill Clinton's record of a good economy.

Plus the kitchen sink, etc.

His performance has been impressive to say the least.

[wisteria]

16. And, she has benefited from the RW attacks on him and help from ABC. n/t

[BootinUp]

12. currently its 9.464

to soon to tell.

[Guaranteed]

13. And it IS multiple digits- after the decimal!

See? She's still alive!

[BootinUp]

21. now 9.53

Normally if the final number is to be rounded because digits are not significant, then drop them before determining the difference.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. It is less than 10% and the supers know tha,t and asked for> than 10

The supers know what Math is and what > than and < means.

[FrenchieCat]

15. Everyone should recommend this thread......

9%

[bhikkhu]

18. "Congrats from me too. Now I wish you would look at the math,

pocket the well-earned victory, and gracefully help us win the GE by conceding that you will not be the nominee".

[FlyingSquirrel]

20. Unfortunately that's not how things work in the MSM world.

If Obama got 45.4% and Hillary got 54.6%, they'd still round it up to 45/55 even though she'd really only have won by 9.2%

Obama would have to bump it up to 45.5% and it doesn't look promising right now. Hillary wins this battle for perceptions, especially since the Obama camp was hoping to "get it down to single digits" and the MSM will fix it into people's minds that it was double digits.

The presses are already rolling with it as we speak.

O well, fortunately in the real world she still has to go by the Democratic Party's rules.

[Coexist]

22. O: 45.7 C: 54.3 - 98.09% reporting

if thats not 9 points, I'll eat my hat

[1776Forever]

23. Commonwealth of PA Official Elections Site link...12:51 a.m. 4/23/08

http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?FunctionID=13&ElectionID=27&OfficeID=1

2008 General Primary
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Unofficial Returns
*** 9,118 out of 9,266 Districts (98.40%) Reporting Statewide ***

President of the United States


Democratic Primary

Candidate Votes Percent
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)

1,027,315 45.7%
CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)

1,222,919 54.3%

[thevoiceofreason]

32. Ya know, there's something screwy with CNN's numbers

Has been all night. They ought to be coming together with the state numbers, but shows her with about 20K extra, it seems.

[TheDoorbellRang]

36. There sure is. They're showing more for Clinton and less for Obama

compared to the state site.

I've been watching Chester, Delaware, and Philadelphia to finish up. They're really the only three with anything left -- all trending Obama.

[Coexist]

24. lol - we had the same idea.

[1776Forever]

26. Yep -- Great minds think alike!!!! LOL!!!

:rofl: :popcorn: :rofl:

[grantcart]

25. Congrats and good luck on all of the future primaries

(Although when I say that I feel like Marty in Back to the Future when he brings back the sports record book from the future that has all of the scores for the upcoming season already in them).

[johnnydrama]

28. that's 8.6% right?

[Coexist]

29. yes, but magically rounded up to 10.

[thevoiceofreason]

30. Don't fret. The numbers will wiggle a bit.

But Hillary has no more good counties except for a couple of rural counties with a few boxes out that may give her a few hundred more margin wise. But Barack still has 25% of Chester County out, and he's been doing very well there.

Heck, even as I spoke, some new numbers came up:

Hillary: 1,248,699 54.69%
Barack: 1,034,383 45.31%

Margin: 9.38%

(Numbers from CNN)

[Patsy Stone]

31. Commonwealth of PA:

http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/

*** 9,155 out of 9,266 Districts (98.80%) Reporting Statewide ***

CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM): 1,230,822 54.3%
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM): 1,037,420 45.7%

Or: 8.6%

[thevoiceofreason]

34. That's it -- CNN is on drugs again!

They do the even number rounding system (math is hard). So they should be rounding down to 8%

[Patsy Stone]

37. LOL

And their PA delegate apportionment was all funky too last I looked. They were quite behind the others in total numbers allotted.

[MarjorieG]

33. Some provisionals out there, which will get counted because of machine problems.

[bridgit]

35. Pft, 1 digit from double digits. If Obama won by 9 yall'd be on the WH lawn trying to shoe-horn...

him into the oval office :spray: :thumbsup:

[FatDave]

38. If Obama had won by 1, Hillary would be conceding the nomination.

They're in very different positions. An upset in PA would have ended it for Hillary. A 9 point victory is barely enough to keep Hillary alive until IN and NC.

[bridgit]

39. Ah! But he didn't win by one now did he...good point...

And so the beat goes on and welcome to it