This is an update to my prior post that made it to the front page. (I'm still a bit in shock over that, and want to thank kos again for putting it up.)
Here are the latest totals I have:
<div class="indent">Total votes cast: 131,044,532
Obama: 69,003,839
McCain: 59,752,660
Margin: 9,251,179</div>
You'll notice the totals for Obama and McCain have not changed much since the update at 130.6 million. The reason is that I've gone back and started including "total ballots cast" to the totals, which include a lot of write in candidates or under / over votes. Some states and counties are better than others in identifying all write in votes, so there are instances where these "other" votes are valid write-in votes, but the county just didn't identify them as write-in. Regardless, I would consider an under or over votes a part of the total turnout, even if the voter didn't want to vote in the Presidential election.
Also, the margin may continue to change up or down as additional counties report, although the ultimate margin will be more than the 9.25 million since the biggest counties remaining (as far as I can tell) are in Obama friendly areas, specifically New York City.
More after the jump.
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