Candidate A and Candidate B have a hotly contested race for Florida's electoral votes. Suppose each of the 8, 084, 000 voters in Florida vote for Candidate A with probability p = 0.5003, and that the voters make their choices independent of one another. What is a good estimate of the probability that Candidate A gets more votes than Candidate B?

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