Please: there is only one way to calculate the margin of victory

[Bad Thoughts]

It's not % of votes for candidate A minus % of votes for candidate B. It's difference between votes for candidate A and candidate B divided by total votes.

55% - 45% is wrong
54.6% - 45.4% is wrong
( 1,237,696 - 1,029,672 ) / 2,267,368 is the only correct method. Rounding can only be done after this calculation is complete.

Note: numbers subject to change with further reporting.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Let me do that in my head. I guess around 0.091746 difference

far less than the 10% being bandied around.

[Bad Thoughts]

2. Depends on how you round

Obama people would like best this one: rounding to the nearest 1, which comes to zero.
Clinton people would like to round to the nearest .1, which comes to .10 or 10%.
More accurate: round to the neares .01, which comes to .09 or 9%.
More accurate stil: .001, which comes to .092, or 9.2% ...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. HAH! only my tummy tum tum is round.

So, let's agree on 9.2%

[sandnsea]

3. She only won 12 delegates, he's over 100 delegates ahead

THAT is the only way to calculate the margin of "victory".

[Bad Thoughts]

5. I'll agree

It's the best measure of what was won, but since much of the discussion about the viability of her campaign rested on some formulation of a double digit percentile lead, and the discussion of the margin of victory seems to matter to some, I'd like to see them get it right.

[LSK]

4. 12

Is the only number that matters. That is how the system works.