An interesting set of statistics I hadn’t yet seen today, from the Time Swampland blog, about the overall popular vote:
TOTAL VOTES CAST
Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971)
Obama: 49.8% (7,294,851)
Clinton won the popular vote by only 0.4% — roughly 50,000 votes out of 14.6 million cast.
It also has a comparison of “get out the vote” numbers between the Democrats and the GOP in the 19 races that were equal for both parties:
Obama/Clinton voters: 14,460,149
McCain/Romney/Huckabee voters: 8,367,694Or, 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters.
It’ll be an interesting spring and summer, that’s for sure. While I am firmly in the Obama camp (for many of the same reasons Luis and Larry Lessig so eloquently articulated), I suspect this whole thing won’t be decided until the superdelegates make a decision at the convention in late August.
And thank you Robert for live-micro-blogging the event on Twitter while I watched the Bruins get whipped by the Sabres. You are a wolf.