I've been scouring news sites and secrataries of states sites for the last hour, and have updated my National Primary/Caucus Popular Vote spreadsheet.
A huge number of people voted yesterday. 15,113,239 people for 92.86% of the popular vote so far. Including that and the previous votes:
Obama: 7,831,327 (48.12%)
Clinton: 7,719,028 (47.43%)
Edwards: 626,116 (3.85%)
Edwards consistently got a small showing of votes in many states yesterday. Either through ballots already cast before he quit or stalwart defenders who just weren't giving up even after he did.
But it's about delegates
Yes, but I want it to be changed to actual direct votes instead of pledged delegates pretending to be our direct vote. Just look at this quantization error introduced by the delegate apportionment problem:
| Obama | Clinton | Edwards |
Pledged Delegates | 603 | 590 | 26 |
Delegate % | 49.47% | 48.40% | 1.71% |
Popular Vote % | 48.12% | 47.43% | 3.85% |
(delegate count from CNN)
Clinton seems to be gaining quite a bit from delegate roundoff. Interesting, isn't it?
Update [2008-2-6 12:12:4 by bolson]: I had mistakenly been counting superdelegates, but backing off to only pledged delegates actually shows Obama with a slight roundoff gain.
(I'm still missing good caucus data for Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota and North Dakota. I've fudged in some data based on state-delegate-count or similar data, but those counts are probably low by a factor of 10 or worse. Anyone have links to better results data?)