All through last evening as the election results were being reported, a number of people asked where CNN came up with their PA election results. Now we know - they cooked the numbers to give Hillary Clinton a 10% victory, not only by rounding up the percentages incorrectly but by manipulating the actual raw numbers or (more likely) by simply manufacturing them out of thin air. Here are the CNN numbers:
Clinton: 1,258,245 (54.6%) = 55%
Obama: 1.042,297 (45.3%) = 45%
The actual difference in percentages is 9.3%, therefore it should be rounded to 9% (99% districts reporting). But if the rounding out of percentages is done before the percentages are subtracted, we get a nice rounded number of 10%. But more egregious is how the numbers of votes that each candidate received are being reported - they simply cannot be correct, since they don't exist. It is a classic example of lies, damned lies and statistics.
CNN numbers: http://edition.cnn.com/...
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