Who got the popular vote Clinton or Obama?

Question

Does anyone know the popular vote numbers for Obama and Clinton?

Answer 1

OBAMA won 17,535,458 votes TOTAL.  

CLINTON won 17,493,836 votes TOTAL.  

these results INCLUDE both Florida (where they both agreed not to count the votes Hillary beat him by  294,772) and Michigan (which gave Clinton an additional 328,309 (and obama received no/0 credit for any of the 238,168 "uncommitted" votes.)

hope that helps!

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Answer 2

Clinton did, by a fraction. This was almost a dead-on tie. It was the Penn. & Ohio popular & delegate votes that put Clinton just slightly ahead of Obama.

Answer 3

Obama won it.

Answer 4

Their is no true way to calculate the popular vote in a Democratic Primary, because of the Caucus states.

Answer 5

Obama did

Answer 6

it doesn't matter

Gore got the poular vote over Bush

Answer 7

Obama.

Answer 8

Obama DUH

Bush is even more popular then Clinton

Answer 9

Obama did get the popular vote. It was one of the things that put him over the top

Answer 10

Obama did. Even counting Michigan (where he wasn't even on the ballot, so Hillary gained a lot in the pop. vote there) and Florida.

From realclearpolitics.com

Obama:17,535,458 (48.1%)

Clinton: 17,493,836 (48.0%)

It was extremely close, but Obama won fair and square.

Answer 11

Obama won in both votes

Answer 12

CLINTON GOT MORE VOTES THAN OBAMA.

But the Dems have all these weird-a...ed rules that don't just use the "one-man/one-vote" idea.  Plus Barry got a lot of his delegates from Caucuses which are the ultimate "cigar filled room" of modern politics.

Answer 13

Clinton, Obama was awarded votes from people who didn't even vote for him.

Answer 14

Most popular vote - Hillary got it.