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Re: Re: Obama has bought his votes....Ye
lol - all percentages of votes cast HAVE to equal 100% when added together or you've not accounted correctly. Need some remedial math VT? When I split a whole item into parts, and then express them by percentages the percentage numbers assigned to all the parts must add to 100%.
I can't make it any easier on you Vt - have fun now.........-
sst,
Since you are incapable to look up 2012 election results in yahoo or google. Here are the data from wiki and a few examples on why BO + MR equals not 100%:
Candidate Barry Mitt
Popular vote 65,387,995 60,724,672
Percentage 50.9% 47.3%
and by States from A to W:
Alaska
100% Reporting
Polls Close: (Nov. 6) 11 PM ET; (Nov. 7) 12 & 1 AM ET
State Results »
R Winner M. Romney 55.3% 136,848
D B. Obama (i) 41.3% 102,138
L G. Johnson 2.5% 6,131
G J. Stein 1.0% 2,366
Wyoming
100% Reporting
Polls Close: 9 PM ET
State Results »
R Winner M. Romney 69.3% 170,265
D B. Obama (i) 28.0% 68,780
L G. Johnson 2.2% 5,302
O V. Goode 0.6% 1,438- 1 Reply to unclefulbert
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I saw the results Unclefull of it - and the race was not a walk away for Obama - that was my point.
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New Mexico is the only State with over 3%, 3.9%, going to others:
New Mexico
100% Reporting
State Results »
D Winner B. Obama (i) 52.9% 408,312
R M. Romney 43.0% 331,915
L G. Johnson 3.5% 27,337
G J. Stein 0.3% 2,641
O R. Anderson 0.1% 1,151- 1 Reply to chaunce_gardner
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And there's also a good fraction of a percent of the votes that go for folks like Mickey Mouse, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Bart Simpson, or some guy's wife or mother-in-law who he wants to get out of the house more often. These sorts of votes never get reported in these summaries, but they are there.
Sentiment: Hold
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