[Conservative_Jedi]

>>>Romney gets republicans 88-9, democrats 11-86, and independents 47-44.<<<

>>>According to these numbers, and by my calculations, Romney gets 51.2% of the vote.<<<

Using what D/R/I?

Using total votes for Romney (88+11+47) / total votes (88+9+11+86+47+44). That equals 146/285.

[Principled]

oh I see - the numbers that were added [88, 11, and 47] were percentages though. Looking at it like that, there would be 15 votes missing [3 from his R, 3 from his D, and 9 from his I.]

So assuming the missing 15 are split evenly, RR would still get more 153.5 to 146.5.

But I don’t think the D/R/I is even so I think the original percentages can be used to make more precise a prediction.

Using 35/36/29 the numbers give 52-48. I’d take that.