While Iowa only reported its state delegate totals on which MSM then declared Barack Obama to be a winner with 38% of the vote to JE with 30 and HRC with 29% no popular vote total was available until recently.
Popular vote total may be determinative to how superdelegates will decide, and it does appear that they will decide the nomination. Neither Barack Obama nor HRC will be able to secure the 2025 delegates without at least a part of the total is superdelegates. There is nothing wrong with that as long as those superdelegates do not had the nomination to a candidate that has won fewer states, fewer popular votes and fewer pledged delegates. Interesting issue will be as follows:
What if Barack Obama winns more states and more pledged delegates (let's say +50) but HRC wins the popular vote even by a few hunderd votes. This assumes FL and MI not counted or considered and all play by the rules. What should superdelegates do. That is the poll question below. What do you think?
In order to properly account for all actual popular voted Iowa must be considered. I was at the caucuses there myself and I want to be counted.
Iowa
Barack Obama 93,709
HRC 73,666
Obama +20,043
RealClearPolitics.com has a fairly good popular vote tracker and I would ask that you e-mail them (if you know how) about this popular vote total as it is not included. It is important that you do act and contact them because they are considered a reliable authority but they do not have Iowa included and they even say Iowa is not included. Well now there is no excuse to exclude and +20,000 votes is and could be quite important. I will post soon the spreadsheet with 99 county vote totals so you can see that the numbers are accurate. For all that care you can go to www.cnnpolitics.com and look at Iowa map and do the same calculation if you want to spend a few hours totaling votes. I have and the numbers are clear.