# Hillary: round(0.09287) = 10% = double digit win **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 29, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333 "2008-04-29T09:20:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333/21 "2008-04-29T14:54:34Z")
In other news, Clinton has a triple digit superdelegate lead. If you just round 237 down to 200, and then round 258 up to 300, there ya go, a triple digit lead! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333/22 "2008-04-29T15:17:51Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Because 9 just doesn’t sound as big as 10. It’s why stuff gets priced at $9.99 instead of $10.00. [/QUOTE] Sadly this sort of thing works. They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t. It’s been awhile since I had my advertising classes in school (so no cites) but I recall there being numerous studies and it just works (also more red boxes sell than blue boxes with the same product among other trivia). Yes, we all know intellectually that $9.99 for all intents and purposes is $10.00 as a practical matter and (tax aside) none of us probably wants that penny change and would rather plop a tenner down and be done. But despite this the populace will gravitate to the $9.99 product in measurably greater numbers (everything else being equal). Hillary is spinning to this for precisely that reason. We all know it but what do we see in the MSM? Looks like it works here too. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333/23 "2008-04-29T15:32:38Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] In other news, Clinton has a triple digit superdelegate lead. If you just round 237 down to 200, and then round 258 up to 300, there ya go, a triple digit lead! [/QUOTE] Heh. 😃 Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333/24 "2008-04-29T16:13:25Z")
Actually, the people who it’s really supposed to impress, don’t seem to be so impressed by it. > [@](#): > > **Obama Heads for Superdelegate Edge** > > Despite his loss in Pennsylvania and other campaign bumps, Barack Obama is heavily favored to win what will be the final and decisive contest for the Democratic presidential nomination – the “invisible primary” for the convention votes of party leaders. > > . . . > > Among elected officials, Sen. Obama leads in endorsements from governors and senators. He is behind among House members by one, but both camps expect him to pull ahead unless he does badly in next Tuesday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries. **If he doesn’t stumble, enough elected Democrats are expected to back Sen. Obama after the last primaries June 3 to give him the delegate majority needed for nomination.** > > Many of them see Sen. Obama as more electable than Sen. Clinton. But even those who don’t have been impressed by his grass-roots organizing and fund raising and the legions of new voters he has attracted, particularly younger and African-American voters. > > The politicians – especially Democrats with significant African-American populations or college campuses in their districts – see benefit for themselves in these new voters. By contrast, many see Sen. Clinton’s alienating some general-election voters. > > A Democratic strategist to congressional candidates cites Sen. Clinton’s high negative ratings in opinion polls. Politicians “all think Obama will stimulate African-American turnout, and they all know there’s no way she gets independents or Republicans,” says the strategist, who is unaligned in the presidential race. > > . . . So what does it matter how the MSM spins her PA win? The spin hasn’t provided her any noticeable gains anywhere, and it won’t win her the nomination. She’s grasping at straws, but the liquid’s draining fast from the cup. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333/25 "2008-04-29T16:23:26Z")
\>She’s a politician. What do you expect? Honesty? Accuracy? Integrity? Well, why can’t she rig the machines or intimidate the opposing voters like everyone else, then? \>Also, you probably either wanted that to read 9.28~% or 0.0928~ without the percentage sign. Uh… so it turns out she’s about 90X closer than I was? Hmm. That didn’t go as planned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-round-0-09287-10-double-digit-win/447333.md?page=1)