According to Wikipedia’s latest tabulation, Mitt Romney has received 60,227,548 of the 126,832,750 votes tallied so far. That’s 47.485%, which rounds off to … 47%.

Mission accomplished.

[Cross-posted at The Reality-based Community]

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Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at the New York University Marron Institute.