Math - what am I missing?
by Roadie
Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 11:11:41 AM PDT
Bush+Kerry+Nader total votes with 99% precincts counted is 114,260,960
According to this Washington Post graphic of the exit polls by gender:
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/graphics/exitPolls.html
54% of voters were female and 46% were male.
54% of 114,260,960 is 61,700,918
46% of 114,260,960 is 52,560,042
According to the exit polls Kerry won the female vote 54/45 and lost the male vote 47/52.
Kerry's totals:
54% of 61,700,918 is 33,318,496
47% of 52,560,042 is 24,703,220
Total: 58,021,715
Bush's totals:
45% of 61,700,918 is 27,765,413
52% of 52,560,042 is 27,331,222
Total: 55,096,635
Kerry wins popular vote by 2,925,081 or 2.6%
The Wash Post site says "Sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 1 percentage point"
Am I missing something? Something looks very wrong here!
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