Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
...would you feel Obama was cheated if he had more pledged delegates but Hillary ended up having the popular vote?


The debate over the Democratic popular vote
  • The problem with the argument is that Obama leads in this category, too, and the available evidence suggests he’s also unlikely to relinquish this advantage.... For the record, Senator Obama came out of the Mississippi primary with an advantage of 99,000 votes over Senator Clinton, more than I had predicted based on his edge in Alabama. That puts his margin in the nationwide popular vote — by a measure that includes Florida but not Michigan — at more than 500,000...it will take a colossal victory, almost 60%, for Clinton to get a 200,000 vote edge out of Pennsylvania. And if she does that, there is no plausible scheme under which she could pick up the remaining 300,000 votes to gain even the dubious moral claim of an edge in the popular vote

    If we include Florida... Obama still has a 400,000 vote lead. If we include Florida and Michigan... Obama still leads, though by a modest 80,000-vote margin.

    But here’s a twist — the RCP [popular vote] totals don’t include the popular votes from Iowa, Nevada, Washington state, and Maine, three of which Obama won by wide margins. (In other words, his sizable popular vote lead is even bigger than it appears.)