Daily Kos shows Mitt is inextricably linked to 47%

[Astazia]

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Source: The Daily Kos

Daily Kos 47% watch.

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The final total of all votes has come in and according to the Daily Kos' founder, Markos, in the popular vote totals Mitt Romney got 47.53% of the popular vote which rounds down to 47%!

[Drunken Irishman]

1. 47.53 could be rounded up. It'll dip below 47.5, tho.

[Tutonic]

2. Yup. California and New York provisionals are

still being counted. He's a 47% demon!

[rocktivity]

3. 5 through 9 and 50 through 99 always rounds UP. It's not "really" 47 until he falls to 47.4

Go, Mitty, go, GO -- we know you can do it!


rocktivity

[csziggy]

4. Use IRS rounding - anything after the decimal is discarded

So 46.53 = 47%

[Astazia]

6. That's what general wisdom suggested, considering blue states are still counting.

TaTa Mittens, no Redux RePuke...you have been soundly....
ReeeeeeeJected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

13. I ask: What would CNN do? nt

[TexasTowelie]

5. Technically, the term that you are looking for is "truncates".

All digits after the designated digit are discarded.

So 47.53% can be truncated to 47.5% if going to tenths of one percent and it can be truncated to 47% for reporting to the nearest whole number.

[panAmerican]

12. Haha, I was going to point that out, but you already did

[SariesNightly]

7. disenfranchised deep southeners

I bet they're disenfranchised poor republicans from the deep south who are hell bent on getting even more screwed by Mitt n' gang

[Cha]

8. That's lower when I last saw it! "47%" it is,

then!

[sheshe2]

10. From the 47% er's that Mitt was not concerned about?

Shows what you know Mitt ....we are 47% sure that we are not concerned about you either!

So Love and Hugs Mitt......now get the Hell out of here! Please proceed Governor!

And take Queen Anne with you!

[Blandocyte]

9. So glad most of the country saw thru corporate whore Mitt

He would've handed the country over to the power hungry greed weasels who bought him. It is great to know that most of us could see through him. So funny to hear him flip flop on issues as if he'd say anything to get elected. So nice to know dumbasses like Schlatter spent millions on trying to get him elected. And failed! I love this country!

[Stargleamer]

11. It's at 47.51% now

here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=19

0.07 to go!

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Locking - not Latest Breaking News

There's no link, and this is not an event that has happened yet - it's a website waiting for it. This could be a thread in GD or Politics 2012, however.

Thank you.