Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Rounding

"I won that double-digit victory that everybody on TV said I had to win, and the voters of Pennsylvania clearly made their views known -- that they think I would be the best president and the better candidate to go against Senator McCain," Clinton said Wednesday morning in a CNN interview.

So the numbers for Pennsylvania are as follows:
Obama: 1,042,297 45%
Clinton: 1,258,245 55%

But if you look (divide) closely, Clinton has 0.546934157 and Obama has 0.453065843.
Hmm, seems to be less than the 10% double digit victory.

Let's subtract: the answer is 0.093868315.

Let's round it to the nearest percent... ask an elementary school student. Will the student say 9% or 10%?

Another trick to deceive poorly math educated Americans?

About the "clearly made their views known" comment, even with a solid 55%, is it big enough a majority to be a really clear winner? 10% is THE smallest double digit victory and the winner is almost there.

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