Actually both numbers are correct by lm (4.00 / 1) #27 Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 03:22:46 PM EST
If you round first, then take the difference, it's 10.

If  you take the difference, then round, it's 9. (The 8 was a bad report. For some reason the Pennsylvania secretary of state put the wrong number up for one county.)

So, at least this time, both candidates can spin it their own way without any falsehoods. The difference is either single digits or double digits depending on when you round. Either way, the arithmetic is honest and, to be fair, doesn't really make any significant difference.


There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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