On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> 1) The Reform Party Congressional Candidate performed exceptionally
> well, pulling 2,500 votes to Pat's 3,600 votes.
I'd like to see a breakdown of votes by county for this Congressional
candidate, vs. the other candidates; the Reform Party being rather
disparate (for instance, I strongly doubt that Ventura voted for
Buchanan), it's meaningless otherwise.
> 2) Pat Buchanan performed very well in PBC in a meaningless 1996
> Republican Primary, after Dole was already declared the Republican
> nominee.
Buchanan's votes compared to Dole's in PBC in 1996 were comparable to the
rest of the state. Buchanan recieved a lot of votes, as a raw number, simply
because it's a very populous county.
See http://madison.hss.cmu.edu, which plots Buchanan votes vs. Gore, Bush,
and total votes by county for Florida; on all three of these, PBC sticks out
like a sore thumb, a many-sigma outlier from the usual linear relations. It's
right in the pack for the Buchanan vs. Dole votes in the 1996 primary, by
contrast.
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Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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