CNN projects (surprise!) Hillary Clinton will win Puerto Rico by a wide margin.
The fun question will be, does this give her the popular vote lead?
UPDATE: CNN estimates the turnout between 325,000 and 425,000. That seems a bit on the low side (theyโve had huge turnout in general election days). But if the vote splits 2:1, that means weโre looking at vote totals of 214,500 to 110,500 on the low side, or 280,500 to 144,500 on the high side. Her margin of victory is between 104,000 to 136,000 votes.
Plugging that increase into the margins on RCP, those totals wouldnโt change who leads in the various permutations in the popular vote. Hillaryโs margin widens in the popular vote including Michigan, and including estimates of Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington. Obamaโs lead in the most limited popular vote count shrinks considerably, but not quite to 0. And in the other counts, he continues to lead by six figures (out of more than 34 million).
ANOTHER UPDATE: Donna Brazile, CNN commentator and superdelegate, vents in a moment of exasperation that she will โgive her voteโ to Hillary if sheโll โshow some loveโ to the party and demonstrate some unity. She mentions โe-mails from strangers threatening usโฆ saying theyโll go with John McCain.โ
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: With 98 percent of precincts reporting, 68 percent to 32 percnet, 257,331 votes to 118,972 โ a 138,359 margin. Itโs ahead of the margin of victory projected in my back-of-the-envelope math earlier, but she needed 166,186 to take the popular vote lead without Michigan, Florida, or the caucus statesโฆ






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