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Eraserhead
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« on: December 12, 2008, 01:30:54 AM »

Stupid question but most sites still have Obama at 66 million (or so) and so forth...
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 01:31:45 AM »

Do most sites have matching totals in absentee-heavy West Coast states?
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 01:34:25 AM »

As far as I know, Obama currently has 69.5 Mio. votes and McCain 59.9 Mio.
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2008, 02:40:17 AM »

Atlas is the most accurate site, as far as I know. The AP is a few million votes behind, and most sources get their information from the AP.
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2008, 06:20:08 AM »

Haven't most states certified their results yet? If not, when will that happen?
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2008, 07:03:50 AM »

Most states certified in late november. Some even earlier. The few stragglers such as California will be certifying right around now.
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 10:03:31 AM »

There are, of course, two major errors where the states certified obviously incorrect data: Wyoming County, PA and Grant County, ND. Other than that, we're more up-to-date than any other compilation I've seen.
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2008, 10:26:31 AM »

Dave does an excellent job, and his totals are better than any other online site I have seen.

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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2008, 10:26:42 AM »

Our site is one of the most updated. Better than most news websites. Of course the best place for results is still the SOS.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2008, 11:29:04 AM »

 When will atlas have the county tab that you can put the cursor over to view?
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2008, 07:02:38 PM »

When will atlas have the county tab that you can put the cursor over to view?

I hope it comes soon.
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2008, 02:29:10 PM »

Our site is one of the most updated. Better than most news websites. Of course the best place for results is still the SOS.

I have checked the Wiki-page and the Atlas and Dave seems to have updated every major state except California and Ohio, where he's running about 400.000 votes behind, combined.

California will certify their results today and I expect Obama to pick up 8.3 Mio. votes. On the Atlas page, Obama currently has 8.06 Mio. votes

In Ohio, Obama currently has 2.78 Mio. votes on the Atlas page, but 2.93 Mio. on the OH SOS page.
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« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2008, 10:15:15 AM »

Wiki has it at:

Obama 69,445,367 (52.9%) / McCain 59,923,677 (45.7%)

According to whom, only Massachusetts and Tennessee are yet to be final

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« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2008, 05:14:53 PM »

As far as I know, Obama currently has 69.5 Mio. votes and McCain 59.9 Mio.

Wow, 60 million voters thought Sarah Palin could step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?
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« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2008, 05:22:52 PM »

As far as I know, Obama currently has 69.5 Mio. votes and McCain 59.9 Mio.

Wow, 60 million voters thought Sarah Palin could step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?

Wow, 60 million voters though Sarah Palin couldn't step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?

See, I can play this game too.
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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2008, 05:26:59 PM »

As far as I know, Obama currently has 69.5 Mio. votes and McCain 59.9 Mio.

Wow, 60 million voters thought Sarah Palin could step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?

Plenty of the people who voted for McCain did not think Palin was qualified to be President, according to the exit polls.
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2008, 05:34:02 PM »

As far as I know, Obama currently has 69.5 Mio. votes and McCain 59.9 Mio.

Wow, 60 million voters thought Sarah Palin could step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?

Wow, 60 million voters though Sarah Palin couldn't step in as President if she was required to do so.

Who would ever have thought?

See, I can play this game too.

True, you can do whatever you want, as long as it's legal.  It's a free country after all.

Feel free to paraphrase me anytime you like.

And that's 70 million by the way.  Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2008, 10:24:33 PM »

Will Obama surpass 10 million votes over McCain?
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