For the Record: Hillary Clinton does not lead the Popular Vote of 50 states
Hillary’s website today lists her popular vote total as 17.41m, compared to 17.23m for Obama.
This is rubbish. Hillary’s two numbers do not include a single person from the following states:
- Iowa
- Nevada
- Maine
- Texas [Caucuses]
- Washington, my home state
…because in those states “party officials did not report any popular vote breakdown between the two candidates.” So much for voter enfranchisement. Obama won in all those states except Nevada.
Now, if only we could devise some ingenious method whereby we could compare the voter preferences of caucus states and ballot states. We could, for example, give each state a number of “points” based on its portion of the U.S. population (we could call these points “delegates”) and then divide each states “delegates” based on the portion of caucus or ballot goers that voted for each candidate. Then we could add up all the delegates and just compare them to see which candidate reflects voter preference! But this can never work because math is sexist.
