I get so tired of hearing people say that their vote doesn't make a difference.
Sen. Barack Obama won Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday by just seven votes, according to a Guam election official.
With all 21 precincts reporting, Obama finished with 2,264 votes, or 50.1 percent. Sen. Hillary Clinton got 2,257 votes, or 49.9 percent.
Seven votes. Out of 4,521.
That's 0.15 percent.
Overall in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, CNN estimates that Obama leads Clinton in pledged delegates by 137, while Clinton leads Obama in superdelegates by 22.
As for the popular vote, estimates of Obama's lead range from a razor-thin 0.03 percent -- 11,400 votes out of 30,669,564 cast -- to a meager 2.1 percent -- 611,695 votes out of 28,894,055 cast.
If you're a numbers person, then the RealClearPolitics Democratic popular vote tally page -- and all its disclaimers, addenda, provisos, etc., necessitated by the Florida-Michigan-Iowa-Nevada-Maine-Washington craziness -- is for you. (Note: As of this posting, the Guam numbers are not updated on the RCP tally, but I have included them in the figures above.)
With Clinton raising expectations for her performance in Tuesday's North Carolina primary, will former Democratic candidate John Edwards, who dropped out of the race at the end of January, finally endorse one of the two senators? Or will he keep his powder dry in hopes of leveraging his influence to advance his anti-poverty agenda with the candidates ahead of the convention in August?
Keep an eye out here for a first-person account of the atmosphere on the ground in North Carolina ... Tuesday's going to be fun!
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