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Astazia

(262 posts) Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:45 PM Nov 2012

Daily Kos shows Mitt is inextricably linked to 47% [View all]

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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%!

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Daily Kos shows Mitt is inextricably linked to 47% [View all] Astazia Nov 2012 OP

47.53 could be rounded up. It'll dip below 47.5, tho. Drunken Irishman Nov 2012 #1

Yup. California and New York provisionals are Tutonic Nov 2012 #2

5 through 9 and 50 through 99 always rounds UP. It's not "really" 47 until he falls to 47.4 rocktivity Nov 2012 #3

Use IRS rounding - anything after the decimal is discarded csziggy Nov 2012 #4

That's what general wisdom suggested, considering blue states are still counting. Astazia Nov 2012 #6

I ask: What would CNN do? nt Comrade_McKenzie Nov 2012 #13

Technically, the term that you are looking for is "truncates". TexasTowelie Nov 2012 #5

Haha, I was going to point that out, but you already did panAmerican Nov 2012 #12

disenfranchised deep southeners SariesNightly Nov 2012 #7

That's lower when I last saw it! "47%" it is, Cha Nov 2012 #8

From the 47% er's that Mitt was not concerned about? sheshe2 Nov 2012 #10

So glad most of the country saw thru corporate whore Mitt Blandocyte Nov 2012 #9

It's at 47.51% now Stargleamer Nov 2012 #11

Locking - not Latest Breaking News muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #14