CNN Totals - looks great- but how are they calculated?

lisa02

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 4:55 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 16:55

My first diary... I've been addicted to this site and results information but trying as Kos said NOT to rely too much on the exit polls. So, I'm looking at the reporting precincts and map info on the CNN site.

http://www.cnn.com/...

I'm trying to understand the results at the top of the page that are showing Obama at 54% and McCain at 46% with around 4 million total votes (at 4:53pm Pacific Time). This does not seem to be in sync with the number as you mouse over each state.

Does anyone know how CNN is coming up with the numbers up top? Hopefully it's some logical, lovely way that will cause lots of rejoicing!

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