The Final Math

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The Final Math
By Eric Kleefeld - June 4, 2008, 1:46PM

So with every last primary and caucus now over and done with, here are the final stats for the delegates and popular votes:

• Barack Obama has passed the 2,118-vote finish line and now has 2,158 votes, against 1,926 for Clinton. The remaining 144 super-delegates are likely to go almost entirely to Obama.

• Obama leads in the pledged-delegate count by 1,763 to Clinton's 1,640 -- a difference of 52%-48%, showing just how close this race was over the whole cycle.

• In the super-delegate count, Obama now leads by 395 votes to Clinton's 286 votes, a long journey from the start of the race when Hillary dominated in this category. This number is also likely to change very rapidly, as more and more supers come out for Obama as the presumptive nominee.

• For the popular vote -- a statistic that the Hillary camp has been boasting they won -- it all depends on how you count it. According to RealClearPolitics, Obama leads by 151,844 in a count that excludes Michigan and factors in estimates from caucuses that did not directly report popular vote totals. Including Michigan and crediting Obama all of the "Uncommitted" voters against Clinton, Obama still leads by 61,703 votes. In order for Hillary to lead, Michigan has to be added in without crediting Obama those votes.

All in all, it's been an amazing primary season. One candidate started out as the seemingly-unstoppable frontrunner, while another was able to come out of practically nowhere and pull off a narrow victory. The next step: Cleaning up the mess and getting on to the general election.

[barack the house]

1. When Hillary started she had and SD 200 head start so don't know how she was mistreated on gender.

[barack the house]

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