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Related: About this forumFact Checker Is Hillary Clinton really ahead of Bernie Sanders by 2.5 million votes? UPDATE w/WY.
By Glenn Kessler April 6
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/06/is-hillary-clinton-really-ahead-of-bernie-sanders-by-2-5-million-votes/
Fact Checker
Is Hillary Clinton really ahead of Bernie Sanders by 2.5 million votes?
Update: Unofficial results indicate that Sanders reduced the vote margin by about 130,000 votes with his victory in Wisconsin.
The Pinocchio Test
Despite the suspicions of the Sanders supporter, the fact that caucus results are not included in the popular vote tally does not appear to make much of a difference in the final result. Despite overwhelming victories in caucus states such as Washington and Maine, Sanders gains only about 130,000 votes. That means Clinton is ahead by 2.4 million votes, rather than 2.5 million votes. Given rounding and the fact that caucus numbers are only estimates the difference is slight enough that Clintons claim, made before the Wisconsin vote, earns a rare Geppetto Checkmark.
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Fact Checker Is Hillary Clinton really ahead of Bernie Sanders by 2.5 million votes? UPDATE w/WY. (Original Post)
Henhouse
Apr 2016
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Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)1. And, that's a BIG Geppetto Checkmark for TRUE...
Yes, indeedy, she has 2.5 million more popular votes than St. Bernardo, and all the whining in the world won't change that FACT or that MATH!
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)3. 2.4 Since WI
It will continue to shrink
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)2. Uh-oh
Some people aren't going to like this