Add it up

Ed Rendell was on Meet the Press last Sunday making the argument that what matters most is winning the big States, which Tim Russert called a "strong argument." I just saw Christ Mathews on Hardball making the position that Super-delegates should go for whichever candidate wins the popular vote, and disregard the delegate count. This is typical pro-Clinton news-spin, that's all over NBC (save for Keith Olbermann who says it like it is).

But let's just take the numbers as they stand for the "big" States so far:

State	Obama	Clinton
California	2,126,000	2,553,000
Texas	1,358,000	1,459,000
New York	698,000	1,003,000
Illinois	1,302,000	662,000
Ohio	982,000	1,212,000
Georgia	704,000	330,000
New Jersey	492,000	603,000
Virginia	627,000	350,000
Washington	354,000	316,000
Total	8,643,000	8,487,000

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California 167 . . . . . . 203
Texas 99 . . . . 94
New York 93 . . . . 139
Illinois 104 . . . 49
Ohio 66. . . 75
Georgia 60 . . . 27
New Jersey 48 . . . . 59
Virginia 54 . . . . 29
Washington 53 . . . 25

Total 744 . . . 700


So as it stands now, for the "big" States, Obama has won MORE people, and MORE delegates. So according to their argument, Obama has won both categories as a whole, and should be the winner.